Who is developing the Common Core Standards?

I saw the list of people that make up the committee which is developing the Common Core Standards for our country's children.  You might be surprised to know that most of them are from testing companies.  Yup - testing companies. 

There aren't educators on this list - no current high school teachers, or college professors, or even principals.  No pedagogues.  The standards are up for public comment - http://www.corestandards.org.  I hope many teachers, students, parents will get involved and comment.

Check out the list of people on the committee:

Sara Clough, Director, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.

David Coleman, Founder, Student Achievement Partners

Sally Hampton, Senior Fellow for Literacy, Americas Choice

Joel Harris, Director, English Language Arts Curriculum and Standards, Research and Development, The College Board

Beth Hart, Senior Assessment Specialist, Research and Development, The College Board

John Kraman, Associate Director, Research, Achieve

Laura McGiffert Slover, Vice President, Content and Policy Research, Achieve

Nina Metzner, Senior Test Development Associate--Language Arts, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.

Sherri Miller, Assistant Vice President, Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.

Sandy Murphy, Professor Emeritus, University of California ? Davis

Jim Patterson, Senior Program Development Associate--Language Arts, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.

Sue Pimentel, Co-Founder, StandardsWork; English Language Arts Consultant, Achieve

Natasha Vasavada, Senior Director, Standards and Curriculum Alignment Services, Research and Development, The College Board

Martha Vockley, Principal and Founder, VockleyLang, LLC

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