Is Anybody Up for Defending the Common Core Math Standards?
by Frederick M. Hess • Sep 6, 2011 at 9:17 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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ShareI've been executive editor of Education Next for more than a decade. In that role, one of the things I've done is coordinate our "forums" on various topics. Over the years, we've done forty-odd forums, and have usually gotten our first choice authors. When we haven't gotten them, we've almost invariably gotten our second choice. All of which makes it astonishing that, over the past three months, we've now asked six individuals involved in the Common Core math standards to pen a piece making the case for their rigor and quality, and each has declined in turn. This is, quite literally, unprecedented.
The request is anything but daunting. We've asked these folks to pen 1500 words explaining why the Common Core math standards are rigorous and well-designed. The authors have been promised compensation and at least six weeks to write the piece. We're offering the opportunity to make their case in a leading publication
