How Common Core State Standards will be beneficial to the Bay Area and Silicon Valley

As I travel the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley informing students, parents, teachers, business professionals, community leaders and clergy about the implications and opportunities that accompany the controversial move to the Common Core State Standards, I feel a bit like Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride, when he was commissioned to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock about British troop activity. While many historians have suggested that Paul Revere did not actually shout “The British are Coming!,” he was known as a family man, business man, compassionate patriot and messenger in the American Revolution. I am also a family man, business man, compassionate patriot and messenger for a different type of revolution; the American Education Revolution. The American Education Revolution is being further fueled by the passage, adoption and ongoing implementation of the Common Core State Standards.........