Has the Common Core Failed? and, if so, What’s Next? Has Anyone Considered Asking Teachers and Principals?
Ten years ago 46 out of 50 states adopted the Common Core (CCSS) and embarked on a voyage to improve student outcomes by adopting more rigorous standards. Ten years later three researchers express opinions on the question: Has the Common Core Failed?
This is especially important in New York State as the state begins to examine Graduation Measures, aka graduation requirements. Over the next few months dozens of regional meetings will be held to garner public opinion followed by the convening of a blue ribbon commission followed by the creation of a draft policy statement, more public comment and finally adopting new high school graduation requirements: a two year process.
A decade after the adoption of the Common Core researchers disagree over the efficacy of adopting the Common Core standards: “A decade later, has the Common Core failed.”
Morgan Polikoff, associate professor at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California; Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and an executive editor at Education Next; and Tom Loveless, past director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings CONTINUE READING: Has the Common Core Failed? and, if so, What’s Next? Has Anyone Considered Asking Teachers and Principals? | Ed In The Apple
