Get Schooled: In declaring war on Common Core, Cobb is also attacking state standards
This is what I don’t get about Cobb County’s antipathy toward Common Core: Georgia standards are Common Core.
There have been several evaluations of how well Common Core aligns with state standards, including a report released just this week.
The report, “Out of Sync: Many Common Core States Have Yet to Define a Common Core-worthy Diploma,” found that of the 45 states that have voluntarily adopted Common Core, only 11 have aligned their graduation requirements in mathematics with those standards.
And Georgia is one of them. And the map from the report shows quite clearly.
School board resistance to Common Core in Cobb led to a “no” vote on new textbooks for next year, textbooks that teachers keep telling me are vital to student learning. (When people refer to