Missouri Education Watchdog: Do Common Core Standards Dictate the Necessity for a National School Board and National Superintendent?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Do Common Core Standards Dictate the Necessity for a National School Board and National Superintendent?:

Do Common Core Standards Dictate the Necessity for a National School Board and National Superintendent?

by stlgretchen

This is from the chief architect of Common Core standards & new leader of The College Board.

Anngie wrote yesterday how the Republican legislators voted to expand charter schools across Missouri.  This is even as a 2010 study, "Charter Schools in Missouri: Student Achievement and Best Practices" by Missouri senators came to a conclusion on page 3/40:

The diversity among charter schools and traditional public schools does not provide evidence to allow a confident or accurate assertion that one type of school consistently outperforms the other.

What's changed between 2010 and 2012?  Charters will now be under the same common core mandates as traditional public schools, so that pesky diversity argument can be cast aside.  Since all the schools are