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American Association of School
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Alliance for Excellent Education

Assembly of State Coordinators of
English Language Arts

The Association for Career and
Technical Education (ACTE)

Carnegie Learning

Council of the Great City Schools

Curriculum Advantage

Curriki

Education Development
Center, Inc. (EDC)

Educational Teaching Aids
Cuisenaire

Envision Excellence in STEM
Education

Evans Newton Incorporated (ENI)

Iowa Testing Programs

Knowledge Alliance

The Learning Institute

National Association of Secondary
School Principals

National Parent Teacher Association

National Student Clearinghouse

National School Supply and
Equipment Association

OpenVES

Pearson

Southeastern Regional Vision for
Education Center at the

University of North Carolina

State Higher Education Executive
Officers (SHEEO)

Teaching Institute for Excellence in
STEM Education (TIES)

Teachscape

Wireless Generation
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"Walk softly
and carry a big stick."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

"Trust but verify."
-- Ronald Reagan
Just because you can
doesn't mean you should.
Conservative Commentary:   Standards, Inc. = Achieve, Inc.
Some of the folks behind the push to nationalize our schools & align them with global ed.
Steve Jobs
PRESIDENT OBAMA
Friends, here's one look at some aspects of how we went from simple one-room local schoolhouses -- that
taught kids facts such that our nation was strong and free for two centuries -- to public schools that serve as
way stations on the school-to-prison pipeline with half of the half that graduate in need of remedial when
they enter college; it's not a complete picture -- that's on another web page, link coming soon.
Arne Duncan, Education Secretary
United States Department of Education
Common Core State Standards Initiative
National
Governors
Association
(founded 1908)
Governors Education Symposiums
NGA Center for
Best Practices

www.nga.org/center
Release of Common Core State
Standards  (09.21.09)  with
international benchmarking
ENDORSERS
Achieve, Inc.
is a 501(c)3
founded in 1996
by U.S. governors
and corporations.
Achieve, Inc.
officers & board
Governor Tim Pawlenty
Minnesota
Craig R. Barrett
Retired CEO/Chairman
of the Board/Intel
Corporation
Governor Jennifer
Granholm
Michigan
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
Chairman & CEO
State Farm Insurance
Governor Donald L.
Carcieri
Rhode Island
Mark B. Grier
VP/ Prudential Financial,
Inc.
Governor Phil Bredesen
Tennessee
Jeff Wadsworth
President & CEO Battelle
Governor Dave
Heineman
Nebraska
Governor Deval Patrick
Massachusetts
Chairman
Emeritus
Louis V.
Gerstner, Jr.
Former Chairman
& Chief
Executive Officer
IBM Corporation
President - Michael
Cohen
President/Achieve, Inc.
Treasurer - Peter Sayre
Controller/Prudential
Financial, Inc.
/
__________________
American
Association of
School
Administrators,
a protectionist
trade organiza-
tion like a union
for school
superintendents
and vendors
wanting to do
business with
them, was
founded in 1865.
Achieve, Inc.
contributors
Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
The Boeing Company
Brookhill Foundation
Carnegie Corp. of New
York
The GE Foundation
IBM Corp.
Intel Foundation
Lumina
Nationwide
Noyce Foundation
The Prudential
Foundation
State Farm Insurance
Companies
Washington Mutual
Foundation
William& Flora Hewlett
Foundation
AASA'S pitch to
prospective
vendors:
One of AASA's biggest
moneymakers is its
annual convention;
vendors are told:  
"Attendees represent
more than 35,000 K–12
public schools in the
United States...65%
have final say or direct
influence on purchasing
for their district...66%
attend primarily to see
new products/services...
41% said that they did
not come with a
specificbuying plan, but
discovered
products/servicesthey
would likely buy...60%
are superintendents/
CEOs of their school
districts...25% are brand
new customers who
have never been to the
National Conference on
Education before...77%
have more than 21 years
working in education."
A Fashion Hayvin, Inc.
AAF/McQuay
Academic Innovations
Academic Research
Professionals
Acellus Learning System-
International Academy of
Science
ACT, Inc.
ADT Security Services, Inc.
Advantas Consulting, LLC
AIG Retirement
AlertNow
Alexandria/KeepnTrack
America’s Foundation For
Chess
American Education
Corporation
American Fidelity Assurance
Co.
American Library Association
American Public University
American School & University
Magazine
American Society for Quality
(ASQ)
Ameristar Fence Products
Apangea Learning, Inc.
APEX Learning
ARAMARK Education
Archer Manufacturing
ASVAB Career Exploration
Program (USMEPCOM)
Audio Enhancement
AV Rover
AwardPlace.com
AWE
AXA Equitable
Baldridge National Quality
Program–NIST
Bellefaire JCB/Monarch
Center
for Autism
Beyond Questions Learning
Technologies Inc.
Bioclimatic Air Systems, LLC
Blackboard Connect Inc.
Board Docs By Emerald Data
Solutions
BrainPOP
Brivo Systems, LLC
California Casualty At Auto &
Home Insurance
Calvert Education Services
Cambridge Educational
Services
Cambridge Strategic Services
Carnegie Learning, Inc.
CDC Division of Adolescent &
School Health
CEIA-USA
Channel One Network
CHARACTER COUNTS!
Chartwells
CHPA
Claridge Products &
Equipment,
Inc.
Class.com
Coastal Enterprises
Common Sense Media
COMOTIV Systems
CompassLearning
Council of Educational Facility
Planners International
(CEFPI)
Creating & Managing Wealth,
LLC
Creative Learning Systems
Crisis Management Plan for
Schools–Berra Engineering
CRS, Inc.
D.A.R.E America
Dataworks Educational
Research
Dimension 3D Printing
Discovery Education
Discovery Solutions, Inc.
District Administration
Magazine (Professional
Media Group, LLC)
Jiangsu Education Services
for International Exchange-
JESIE
Johnson Controls, Inc.
K-5 Kaplan
K12 Insight
K12 Systems, Inc.
Kaplan College Preparatory
School
Kaplan K-12 Learning Services
Kelly Educational Staffing
KLC School Partnerships
Knowledge Delivery Systems
L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc.
Learning Sciences
International
Learning.Com, Inc.
LifeTrack Services, Inc.
LightSPEED Technologies, Inc.
Lindamood-Bell Learning
Processes
LJ Create
Manufacturers Applied
Renovation Systems, Inc.
Math Teachers Press, Inc.
MAXIMUS
MedExpert International
MENTOR
Metlife Resources
Mistral Security, Inc.
Movie Licensing USA
Multi-Dimensional Education,
Inc.
NAMM: The International Music
Products Association
National Association of School
Resource Officers
National Association of
Secondary Principals
National Board for Certification
in Occupational Therapy,
Inc.-NBCOT
National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards
National Insurance Services
National Joint Powers Alliance
National School Boards
Assocation
National School Public
Relations Association
National School Transportation
Association
National Student
Clearinghouse
Navajo Jewelry & Crafts
Naviance
NERRTC
Netchemia, LLC
Nora® Systems, Inc.
Nova Southeastern University/
Fischler School of Education
and Human Services
O4 Schools
One Call Now
Opportunity Education
Foundation–Sister Schools
Optimize: Professional
Development, LLC
Outdoor Aluminum, Inc.
ParentLink
Partnership for Excellence
Paxton/Patterson LLC
Pearson
Pepperdine Univ. Grad. School
of Edu. & Psych.
Perma-Coat
Pitney Bowes
Pitsco Systems
Planware Systems, LLC
Plasco ID
PMA Financial Network, Inc.
Polaroid ID System
Power IT
Preferred Educational Software
Preferred Meal Systems Inc.
Premier Election Solutions
Prepared Response, Inc.
Project 7th Grade
Project FROG
Promethean/Logistical Choice
Technologies
Docufide, Inc.
Durham School Services
E & I Cooperative Purchasing/
Public Sourcing Solutions
E-LangLab, LLC
E-Rate Online, LLC
EChalk
EClassroom
Edison Schools, Inc.
Edline
Education Logistics, Inc.
Education Service Center
Region 12
Education Week/Digital
Directions
Educational Research Service
Educational Services of
America
EDUWARE, Inc.
EFileCabinet
Electronic School Board/
Intercom Network
EPEC
Erase-Right
eSchool News
Espar Products, Inc.
ESRI
Evergreen Packaging
Everyday Wireless
Excel Alternative Schools
Excelsior Software
Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost
LLP
Family Leadership/Parenting
Partners
FieldTurf Tarkett
First Student, Inc.
Flashmaster LLC
Follett Software
Forrest T. Jones & Co Inc.
Freedom Concepts Inc.
Gardening With Kids
GCA Services Group, Inc.
General ASP Inc.
Genetec
Georgia Chair Company
Global Compliance Network
Global Connect
Goethe-Institut
Great American Financial
Resources, Inc
Hampden Engineering
Corporation
Handwriting Without Tears,
Inc.
Happy Feet Gel Insoles
Harris Connect Graduate
Connection
Harvard Education Publishing
Group
Heery International
Heifer International
HOPSports, Inc.
HotChalk
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Supplemental Publishers
Hugh OBrian Youth
Leadership
Huntington Learning Centers
Inc.
Hussey Seating Co.
IDEA Partnership
IdeaPaint
Illinois Association of School
Boards
ILoveSchools.com
ING
Ingersoll Rand Security
Technologies
Innovative Educational
Programs, LLC
Innovative Learning Limited
Intand Corporation
International Baccalaureate
Organization
International Society for
Technology in Education
Invent Now Kids, Inc.
IQ-ity
ISS Facility Services Inc.
It Works- Inches Gone
Propell Corporation
PSST World
Renaissance Learning
Rhymes N’ Times
Right Decisions, Right Now
Romexsoft USA Inc.
Rosetta Stone
RTH Processing, Inc
Sadlier
SAFARI Montage
ScholarChip
Scholastic Professional Media
School Datebooks, Inc.
School District U
School Innovations &
Advocacy
School Planning &
Management Magazine
School Webmasters
SchoolDude.com
SchoolFusion
SchoolMessenger
SchoolNet, Inc.
SchoolTipline, Inc.
Schoolwires
Schwabe Books
Shield the Vulnerable
Simple Truths
Skyward, Inc.
Smarthinking
SnapSports
Sodexo
Solution Tree
Soundtree
Southern Bleacher Company
Spiral Universe
SportsGraphics, Inc.
SSC Service Solutions
Sturdisteel Company
Success for All Foundation
Success Foundation
SunGard Public Sector
Tandalay Curriculum
Teacher Appraisal System
Teachers College Innovations
TeleParent Educational
Systems
Tesco Library Furniture
The American Academy
The BizWorld Foundation
The BudgetCard
The Great Books Foundation
The Horace Mann Companies
The Macton Corporation
The MarkerBoard People
The New York Times
The Princeton Review
The Standards Company, LLC
Tower Pinkster
Trapeze Software
Tremco, Inc.
Troops To Teachers
Troxell Communications
Turner Construction Company
TutaPoint.com
Tyler Technologies Inc.
U. S. Department of Education
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. DOE–Energy Smart
Schools
United Health Care Student
Resources
Universal Placement
International, Inc.
UNL Independent Study
UNUM/MGM Educator
Employee Benefit Plans
UPSLOPE SOLUTIONS LLC.
US Navy Recruiting
VH1 Save The Music
Foundation
Video Insight
ViKiwi
Virtual High School
Window To Leadership, LLC
Wizards of the Coast
WLS Consulting
WorkForce Software
ZOLL Medical Corporation
AASA 2009
CONVENTION
VENDORS
_________________________________
AEE Policy Council
Roy Barnes - So.Gov.’
Ass'n &  Ed Comm. of
the States.
Anthony Carnevale -  
1996-2006, VP/PR   
Educational Testing
Svc.  
Rudy Crew - Former
A
ASA supe of the
year & Miami supe.
Christopher T. Cross -  
consultant to Broad
Foundation and C.S.
Mott Foundation... Ed.
Commission of the
States.
David P. Driscoll -
former MA ed
commissioner
Christopher Edley -
civil rights lawyer,
James B. Hunt Jr -
former NC governor.
John H. Jackson -
Schott Foundation,
NAACP.
Arthur Levine - Former
president  Columbia
Teachers College,
Ray Marshall - UT prof,
U.S. Secretary of
Labor under Pres.
Jimmy Carter.
Thomas W. Payzant -  
Pres, Clinton's
assistant secretary for
elementary and
secondary education.
Terry Peterson -
director of the
Afterschool and
Community Learning
Network.
Raymond C. Pierce -
Dean/NC Central U.
School of Law.
Hugh B. Price -
Brookings Institution,
Richard W. Riley -
Lawyer, Senior Fellow
at NAFSA Association
of International
Educators.
Patricia S. Schroeder
-
Former Col.Congress-
woman, CEO - Ass'n
American Publishers
(AAP), national trade
organization for U.S.
book publishing
industry,
Susan Sclafani -
NCEE & Chartwell
Education Group;
Pres. Bush's assistant
secretary of education
for vocational and
adult education.
Rosa A. Smith -
Regional education
director for New
Leaders for New
Schools (NLNS).
William Taylor - Chair,
Citizens’ Commission
on Civil Rights.
Lawyer.
Valerie Woodruff -
DE's secretary of
education.
Alliance for
Excellent
Education
Governing Board
Linda Darling-Hammond
Stanford
Steven Gluckstern
Berkshire Hathaway
Greg Jobin-Leeds
co-founder/chair Schott
Foundation
Harold M. Williams
Getty Trust; former SEC
chair, Norton Simon Inc.
___________
Assembly of State Coordinators of
English Language Arts
was founded
in 1989; as of Sept. 23, 2009, their
website's been disabled..
___
ACTE & the Int'l
Center for
Leadership in
Education
have
partnered to create the

Institute for 21st
Century Leadership
based around the concept
of preparing students to be
“work-life-college ready”
and incorporates the philo-
sophy of rigor, relevance
and relationships.
___
_____________
Carnegie Learning,
sells math curricula.
Partners
Carnegie Mellon...CMU
Pittsburgh-Area Cognitive
Tutor (PACT) Center...
Heinz Endowments...Rand
Corporation...Noel-Levitz...
TigerWoods Learning
Center...
New Schools
Venture Fund
New Schools
Venture Fund
Investors
Institutions
Annie E. Casey Fndtn.
The Aspen Institute
The Broad
Foundation
CityBridge Foundation
Doris/Donald Fisher Fund
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
Goldman Sachs Fndtn.
William & Flora Hewlett
Foundation
James Irvine Foundation
myCFO Foundation
Noyce Foundation
Perkins Malo Hunter Fdn.
Robertson Foundation
U.S. Department
of Education
The Walton Family Fndtn..
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &
Rosati
Individuals
Jim and Sally Barksdale,
Mississippi Common Fund
Trust
James and Susan Breyer
The Byers Family
Steve and Jean Case
John and Elaine Chambers
Jim and Nancy Clark
John and Ann Doerr
Jerome and Sally Doyle
Michael Eisner, The Eisner
Foundation
The Figure Foundation
Denise Foderaro
Matt Glickman and Susie
Hwang
Irv and Sukey Grousbeck,
Grousbeck Family Foundation
J. Dale Harvey
Reed Hastings
William Hearst
Mike and Beth Hunkapiller
Gilman Louie and Amy Chan
Doug and Shawn Mackenzie
Steven Merrill
Halsey and Deb Minor
Mark Parnes
Steve and Carol Poizner,
Poizner Family Trust
Laurene Powell Jobs
Joanna Rees
The Seattle Foundation
Elizabeth Simons and Mark
Heising, Simons Foundation
David Welch
Dave and Lisa Whorton
___
Tiger Woods
Founding Partners
Tiger Woods
Target Stores
HSBC
Buick Motor Division
American Express
McDonald's Corporation
Accenture
County of Orange
AT&T
City of Anaheim
Huish Family
Once Upon A Time
Foundation
Augusta National Golf Club
ADT
Coad Family
Homer Family
PGA TOUR
Draper Foundation
The Boeing Company
Intel
Dell
Nike
Amateur Athletic Fndtn.  
Weingart Foundation
Microsoft
Deutsche Bank
USGA
Why is the federal
government funding an
investors fund?
Why is Orange County
funding Tiger Woods?
Linda Darling-
Hammond
H o w   w e   t a k e   b a c k   o u r   c h i l d r e n ' s    e d u c a t i o n:    o n e   p e r s o n ,  o n e   q u e s t i o n ,   o n e   s c h o o l   a t   a   t i m e.
Questions
  • Achieve, Inc. (national & international  standards)
  • The College Board
  • American College Testing (ACT) (originally Iowa Basic
    Skills Test); offices also in Spain, Singapore,
    Indonesia, Australia, Korea, China
  • National Governor's Ass'n (NGA & NGA Center for
    Best Practices)
  • Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Publishers & testing companies are driving
Common Core (national) Standards; the five
fronting trade organizations: