A few notes:

• Sherman Dorn highlights some misconceptions about the Common Core State Standards. [Sherman Dorn]
• Rania Khalel says public education reform is being done on the backs of Black and Brown children. I tend to agree. [Dispatches from the Underclass]
• William Hood’s story about Dr. Martin Luther King gave me the jitters. [New York Times]
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg moonlights as a middle school teacher in his spare time. The good life. [Mashable]
• There’s been a lot of discussion of the so-called hypocrisy of education activists sending their children to private school. David Cohen breaks it down rather well. [InterACT]

Quotable:

“But solutionism, prefix or not, might encourage us to think that “the answers” (whatever those might be) lie in technology — and our hints to these so-called solutions, in tech and not in books. Ed-tech solutionism leads us think that “the answers” to education lie in ed-tech apps and in data gleaned from them and not in education history, theory, or practice. (Let alone in works of fiction like Things Fall Apart.) And just as importantly (particularly for me, as an education writer and critic), “ed-tech solutionism,” according to Morozov, forecloses our interrogating what “the problems” with education really are in the first place.”

– Audrey Watters, from her Hack Education Newsletter