Bill Gates: Common Core Wants All Kids Taught the Same Way
Microsoft founder Bill Gates attends a session at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in this file photo from January 24, 2014.
The purpose of Common Core was to make sure all kids are taught the same way, Bill Gates, the largest financial backer of Common Core, said, and he was surprised it has become controversial.
"Common Core I would have thought of as more of a technocratic issue," Gates, founder of Microsoft, explained in an interview with Politico published Monday. "The basic idea of, 'should we share an electrical plug across the country?' Well, you can get partisan about that I suppose."...