Common Core Is Dead, Long Live Common Core

We live in a remarkable age.  Even when Florence Foster Jenkins sang in a packed Carnegie Hall decades ago, music critics were able to say that she did not have the voice of an authentic opera singer.  Few in the musical world really cared how Jenkins spent her own money. Perhaps if she had offered to give some of her money to the nation's music schools or departments on condition that they teach voice students to sing as she did in the recordings of the arias she had

We live in a remarkable age.  Even when Florence Foster Jenkins sang in a packed Carnegie Hall decades ago, music critics were able to say that she did not have the voice of an authentic opera singer.  Few in the musical world really cared how Jenkins spent her own money. Perhaps if she had offered to give some of her money to the nation's music schools or departments on condition that they teach voice students to sing as she did in the recordings of the arias she had paid record companies to ma…