(Huffington Post) Bill Gates is rallying teachers to support an embattled cause, the Common Core State Standards.
At a speech Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C., the Microsoft co-founder is lending his voice to save the standards. According to prepared remarks provided to The Huffington Post, Gates told educators at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ Teaching and Learning Conference that the Common Core is the key to creativity for teachers. He also charged that the controversy around the Core “comes from people who want to stop the standards, which would send us back to what we had before.”
