Maybe Even Gates Money Can’t Save Common Core?
The Brookings Institute published a report which must be causing must consternation in the pro-Common Core circles. It’s increasingly apparent that all that money and all the time many education reformers spent ridiculing parents who dared to question the NGO takeover of private education was a losing proposition. More and more parents and legislators are deciding they should not embrace educational reform that is like building an airplane while it is flying and they don’t like educational theory masquerading as fact. From Support for Common Core continues to wane:
The national results depict an emerging trend of thawing support for the standards. Support for the Common Core Standards has decreased every year since 2012. For the first time, in 2015, support for the standards declined from a majority to a plurality, and opposition continued to rise. The number of people who do not support the standards has quintupled since 2012, and increased 9 points from last year (26 percent) to this year (35 percent). This growing opposition stems from many diverse sources, which are identified and critiqued by Patrick McGuinn in a recent series of Chalkboardposts.
The supporters knew that they were facing political headwinds as early as 2013. Matt Gandall, NGO education reformer, was retained by Bill Maybe Even Gates Money Can’t Save Common Core? » Missouri Education Watchdog: