“The children belong to all of us” ?   Hmmm.  How positively Clintonian.

(CNSNews.com) – In addressing criticism of the Common Core national  education standards, a panelist at the Center for American Progress  (CAP), a liberal think tank, said critics were a “tiny minority” who  opposed standards altogether, which was unfair because “the children  belong to all of us.”

The CAP was founded by John Podesta, former chief of staff to Bill  Clinton and now an adviser to President Barack Obama.  At a CAP event to  promote Common Core on Friday, CNSNews.com asked about the critics who  say federal monetary incentives attached to Common Core is driving the  states to implement the standards.

Paul Reville, the former secretary of education for Massachusetts and  a Common Core supporter, said,  “To be sure, there’s always a small  voice – and I think these voices get amplified in the midst of these  arguments – of people who were never in favor of standards in the first  place and never wanted to have any kind of testing or accountability and  those voices get amplified.”

“But those are a tiny minority,” he said. “An overwhelming majority  of teachers are saying this is something – as [panelist] Toby [Romer]  said – that makes sense.” Reville continued, “Again, the argument about where it came from I  think privileges certain sort of fringe voices about federalism and  states’ rights, and things of that nature, when really what we’re doing  at the national level here now, state by state, is what a lot of our  states thought made sense individually.”   (continue reading)