Iowa Governor Branstad’s Unfortunate Praise of Common Core Standards
Those who have read me writing long enough know how I feel aboutthe Iowa Core Curriculum. I think it stinks. It has huge problems. It’s history curriculum stinks to high heaven. It centralizes educationand further removes educational decisions from parents.
There is nothing good about it. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad today in his speech at the Iowa Education Summit said that the way to improve the Iowa Core was to in my estimation replace it with something worse. He said, “The State Board of Education’s decision to add the new, voluntary Common Core State Standards in math and literacy strengthens the Iowa Core.”
How does it do that?
Consider some facts about the common core standards…
- They were not field tested.
- They teach math skills two
