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Brookings Institution Hits Common Core, Denounces Education Alarmism | Truth in American Education

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Brookings Institution Hits Common Core, Denounces Education Alarmism

The left-of-center Brookings Institution has a new report that indicates that the United States is not falling behind the rest of the world in education.

It turns out that the “education reformers” who insist that the US public education system needs to be made accountable to Washington bureaucrat are hyperventilating. Brookings declares that at worst the US is “statistically indistinguishable” from its peers.

They also announced that the Common Core State Standards Initiative is not going to help:

Loveless has served since 2004 on the general assembly of the International Association for the