The Case of Kentucky
Matthew Ladner brings up Kentucky as an example that the Common Core State Standards are working. Kentucky was one of the first states to implement them.
He said that the Kentucky exams were far more lax than that of the NAEP assessments, and after the Common Core they were brought closer into line saying that Kentucky’s definition of “proficient” was far more lax than NAEP’s definition.
He posted these charts below:
Richard Innes of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions said in an email that Ladner wasn’t being accurate as he had the wrong NAEP scores for Kentucky making the above graphs misleading.
As most of you know, Kentucky was the first state to adopt CCSS (even before they were