Pro School Choice Scholar Urges Georgia to Drop Common Core, Too
One of the nation’s most widely read education writers is Maureen Downey of theAtlanta Journal Constitution. In her continued reporting on Georgia’s decision to drop PARCC tests, Downey included a letter from Robert Holland, Senior Fellow for Education Policy at the Heartland Institute in Chicago, “urging Georgia to go a step further and jettison the standards.”
The national Common Core standards and tests are wrong on multiple levels. They constitute a top/down, one-size-fits-all regimen, to be imposed without regard to individual differences among children and without a sign-off by parents and local school boards. And yet in the end the fact that this scheme is hugely expensive may be what brings it down.Georgia is just the latest state to withdraw from the federally financed consortia that are developing the national assessments that would be the final linchpin in making Common Core a de facto national curriculum. The feds have sunk $360 million into developing the potentially intrusive online tests, but when the costs of implementation would bust state education