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<p>Fortune</p>
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<p>How Business Got Schooled in the War Over Common Core Standards</p>
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<p>This is a story about the role Big Business has played in the war over Common Core: how a handful of executives helped turn a decades-old ambition for education reform into reality, their fumbling bewilderment at finding themselves assailed by opposition
they didn’t expect or understand, and how they’ve regrouped and rallied to defend what they wrought. It’s a high-stakes conflict that has generated breathtaking political flip-flops (see “The Flip-floppers and the Wafflers”) and upended traditional alliances,
turning natural bedfellows into bitter enemies. It has seen some of the nation’s foremost capitalists accused of promoting an “immoral,” “freedom-robbing,” “socialist agenda,” aimed at turning America’s children into “mindless drones for the corporate salt
mines.”</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://fortune.com/common-core-standards/?xid=gn_editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true">http://fortune.com/common-core-standards/?xid=gn_editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true</a></p>
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