Kentucky Teacher: Common Core “Is Like Rearranging the Deck Chairs”
Kentucky Education Commissioner Tom Holliday
I just read an interesting article on Kentucky’s pioneering the Common Core State Standards and the mixed results they were seeing. The Common Core has plenty of skeptics:
Much like the Kentucky reforms of two decades ago, Common Core comes with a slew of state mandates about content and keeps the emphasis on testing as a measure of school success. While some schools and teachers, like the ones at Liberty, have fully bought into the changes and have access to resources to help them make those changes happen, in other places Common
