"So really we need an uprising."
Sounds to me like what you really, really need is a clue.
Seriously, Marge, when you are already one letter away from sharing the name of a cow breed, looking like a stupid cow is the last thing you should want...
@HappyGazpacho
Full disclosure, here. I don't know a ton about Common Core. I don't think it's popular with many people on either side of the debate, but I could be misinformed. Anyway, paying teachers based on how well they teach doesn't seem like a terrible idea...
Not being American, I probably know even less about the specifics of Common Core than you, but as someone who has several family members who are teachers in two European countries, I can tell you that paying teachers based on how well their students perform is a pretty horrible idea. Of course, teachers should be evaluated to see how well they teach, and both the French and Swiss school systems have inspectors who do precisely that. But, while an important one, the teacher's performance is but one factor: you can take the best teacher in the world, there is only so much he'll be able to do if you drop him in an underfunded, overpopulated inner city school where kids worry more about not catching a stray bullet than about their grades and give him a flawed curriculum to teach, for example. Worse, it will drive good teachers away from the struggling schools that need them the most, since it makes these schools the career equivalent of black holes.
