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Common Core Standards: Who’s in Charge? | Scathing Purple Musings

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Common Core Standards: Who’s in Charge?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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American Enterprise Institute scholar Mike McShane illustrates in US News & World Report how the implementation of common core standards and its assessment infrastructures are creating problems. One of these is unfolding now in several states. McShane points out that no one is really in charge.
The standards were developed by two organizations, the National  Governors  Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers,  and they, along  with a group of affiliated non-profits and foundations,  worked to get the  standards adopted. None of the  organizations has  any teeth to ensure that states live up to their  commitments. If states  lower their cut  scores (PARCC or Smarter Balanced)  for students on the aligned assessments, who  will hold them to  account? Ceding state power to an  organization that  could would be the very thing local control advocates