[applause] Our motion is Embrace the Common Core. We have two debaters who are arguing against this motion. First, please welcome Carol Burris. [applause] Carol, you are you are principal. You are the the educator on the stage tonight. Youre principal of South Side High School in Rockville Cent
John Donvan: Thank you, Mike Petrilli. [applause] And that is our motion, Embrace the Common Core. And now here to speak against the motion, Carol Burris. She is an award-winning principal at South Side High in Rockville Centre, New York. She also blogs on Answer Sheet in the Washington Post. La
chaos that would result. And finally they says The Common Core standards are a crucial step forward for American education. The team arguing against the motion, Carol Burris and Rick Hess arguing that you do not embrace the Common Core. They agree that the standards are not perfect and then some. The
sponded to this in your opening statement. Were hearing Carol Burris saying that de facto, the fact that the administration offered prizes, financial prizes to schools, partly for adopting common standards, does suggest that that this was a federally steered, to some degree federally steered effort.
to move on now to the substance of the arguments that were made. And I want to take to this side the very strong charge made by your opponent, Carol Burris I want to take it to the side arguing to embrace the Common Core. Carol Burriss statement that there is no evidence that these standards actu
ut we should embrace the Common Core. Thank you. [applause] John Donvan: Thank you, Mike Petrilli. And thats our motion, Embrace the Common Core. And here to summarize her position against this motion, Carol Burris. She is principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York.
