Supporting Common Core is supporting either an increase or diversion of education tax dollars for funding CC-aligned textbooks, CC-aligned materials, CC-based high-stakes tests, CC-related teacher inservice and workshops, and expanded analysis of CC-based test data.
Supporting Common Core is supporting a continuation (at least) or an expansion (likely) of high-stakes testing for children, despite standardized testing negatively impacting the schooling and futures of African American, Latino/a, high-poverty, ELL, and special needs students—as standardized testing remains class, gender, and race biased and overwhelmingly a reflection of out-of-school factors.
Supporting Common Core is supporting the move to VAM-style teacher evaluations and merit pay.
Supporting Common Core is supporting the belief that teachers are inadequate, both lacking and not deserving professional autonomy.
Supporting Common Core is supporting Arne Duncan, Bill Gates, Michelle Rhee, and edu-governors across the U.S.
Ultimately supporting Common Core is a concession, an abdication to the education is in “crisis” rhetoric reaching back to the mid-twentieth century, built on claims that standards are low, schools are failing, teachers have low expectations, and everyone is depending on excuses.
If you remain committed to Common Core, I invite you to read and respond to the following:
Corporations Are Behind The Common Core State Standards — And That’s Why They’ll Never Work
Are Common Core and Testing Debates “Two Different Matters”?
Faith-Based Education Reform: Common Core as Standards-and-Testing Redux
dr. p.l. (paul) thomas 
What suggestions do you have for productive resistance for those of us who have no choice but to work with it?
Great question. I will blog an answer. Thank you!
http://savingstudents-caplee.blogspot.com/2013/12/is-stumbling-and-bumbling-good-thing.html try this. start today http://www.wholechildreform.com. e mail me today and I’ll give you details
I wish each of your assertions were hyper-linked to a supporting article. The articles at the bottom were helpful, but not enough to substantiate your claims…you are preaching to the choir with me, but in order for me to share this with people’s whose minds could be changed, they would ask for more evidence. Just sayin’…
I considered that, but I have written a huge amount to support each of these over the past couple years. And I have found that the CC advocates have no interest in evidence. None. For example: http://atthechalkface.com/2013/06/26/evidence-secretary-duncan-you-cant-handle-the-evidence/
Mercedes Schneider wrote a blog post on the same topic this week: “The Importance of Common Core for Nationally-pervasive Ed Reform”