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Angry Duncan: To Oppose Common Core Is to Oppose Progress
[Editor’s Note: Ms. Simon is a reporter for Politico.com.] U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan realized fairly quickly that he had stumbled last Friday. He had just told a gathering of state superintendents of education that “white suburban moms” were rebelling against the Common Core academic standards — new guidelines for math and language arts instruction — because their kids had done poorly on the tough new tests.
