Position Statement: Should Alabama Rescind Its Adoption of the
Common Core Standards
Ze’ev Wurman
Member, California Academic Content Standards Commission (2010)
Former Senior Policy Adviser at the U.S. Department of Education
November 8, 2011
My background: I am an executive with Monolithic 3D, a Silicon Valley semiconductor
startup. I spent much of my professional life as an engineer and an executive in the
computer and semiconductor technology business, 25 of them in the Silicon Valley. I
became involved in education in the early 1990s, and I participated in developing
California’s education standards and assessments in mathematics since then in various
capacities. Between 2007 and 2009 I served as a senior policy adviser with the Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education.
Throughout the development of the Common Core standards I analyzed the mathematics
drafts for the Pioneer Institute and for the State of California. In the summer of 2010 I
served on the California Academic Content Standards Commission that reviewed the
adoption of Common Core for California. I earned my BSEE and MSEE degrees from
the Technion in Israel.
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