Common Core State Standards is a big failure, as Massachusetts is seeing right now.
Topic: Common Core State Standards
The Cost of Common Core
It may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive. “The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association…
Ohio Dad’s Common Core Math Check Makes News
As Fox News reported, the picture of the father’s check went viral as he wrote Common Core math on a check (which was not to be cashed and he did hide the important information) and…
Common Core Disses Bilingual Education
The bad reviews of Common Core keep pouring in, and not just from the right of center. “Among bilingual educators there has been much debate about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS),” Jeff Bale writes…
Increasingly Uncommon Common Core
As more states learn what Common Core involves, fewer of them want anything to do with it. “The number of states participating in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common…
Smells Like Common Core
Even when teachers don’t appear to be complaining about Common Core they actually are, because CC is so unpopular that bureaucrats and politicians try to camouflage it. Yet and still, like the spots on a…
Education Wonk Changes His Mind on Arne Duncan
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Michael Petrilli recently wrote an apologetic op-ed for Fordham’s e-mail newsletter entitled “The new ESEA will be ‘loose-loose’ because Arne Duncan went overboard with ‘tight-tight’.” A champion for Common Core,…
Jeb Bush, John Kasich Distance Themselves from Common Core Support
Looks like they are backtracking way too fast for comfort on their past support of Common Core, huh?
Education Secretary’s Kids Don’t Have to do Common Core Testing
Why is that? Because Arne Duncan’s children are enrolled in private schools, at least that’s what the College Fix reported. Outrageous that he pushes for these Common Core standards, but his own children do not…
Common Core Crack-Up
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in education continue to crumble when they encounter reality. “Not a single junior at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School showed up to take this spring’s Smarter Balanced tests (SBAC—one…
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