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The Common Core Math Standards–A Step Backward | Truth in American Education

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The Common Core Math Standards–A Step Backward

Education Next interviewed Ze’ev Wurman and W. Stephen Wilson about the Common Core Math Standards which 40 states have signed on to. They ask are they a step forward or backward? They are pretty clear that it is a step backward. Some money quotes…

Wurman in answering whether the CCSS for Math is higher than most state standards said:

They may be higher than some state standards but they are certainly lower than the best of them. For example, the 2008 report of the National Mathematics