In yet another stunning example of his lack of knowledge about life outside the elitist Washington bubble, Arne Duncan came out swinging at Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin during a press conference yesterday (6/9) for signing the bill (HB3399) to end the Common Core State Standards initiative in Oklahoma.  Apparently, pure politics caused the governor (current Chair of the National Governor's Association, who along with the Council of Chief School Officers propelled a set of education standards into national lexicon) to abandon Common Core for her state.  Apparently the thousands of parents who wrote letters, sent emails and called Governor Fallin's office urging her to sign HB3399 during the interim between passage (5/23) and signing (6/5), have been downgraded to political widgets in a game of chicken between a state and the federal government.  It's interesting how quickly the anti-Common Core forces, once vilified as "conspiracy...(Read Full Article)