States Finding New Names to Rebrand Common Core

From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1600:

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Well, the Common Core State Standards sure ain't Shakespeare.

Hell, the CCSS don't even want students to read Shakespeare...

...preferring the "close reading of informational text", aka nonfiction.

So, with apologies to the Bard of Avon:

What's in a name? That which we call the Common Core by any other name would smell as rotten.