Jane Robbins & Erin Tuttle: Does President Trump realize the threats to his education legacy that are being planted by his personnel choices and by congressional “frenemies”?
An Implied Threat to Remove Exxon Mobil From States That Refuse Common Core?
I was disturbed to read a letter sent from Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett last May after Governor Corbett announced a brief pause in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Below is the text of the letter. You can read the original here. Dear Governor Corbett: Exxon […]
Rex Tillerson’s Support of Common Core Built on False Premises
Last week Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, wrote an op/ed in The Wall Street Journal entitled “How to Stop the Drop in American Education.” In it he makes some false premises in supporting the Common Core. The first false premise is that these standards are state-driven. These voluntary, state-driven standards are a set of […]