A study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute reveals a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of the Common Core Curriculum Standards a decade ago.
“Nearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,” said Pioneer executive director Jim Stergios in a statement. “The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.”
The study, titled “The Common Core Debacle” and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, asserts the “shocking trends” in American student performance in critical math and reading skills since the creation of the U.S. Education Department 40 years ago recommends reevaluation of federal involvement in education.
Performance in reading and math since the adoption of Common Core has especially declined in the nation’s lowest-achieving students – many of whom come from low-income families and failing public schools – widening the achievement gap and creating further inequality.
Supporters of Common Core, however, touted the Obama-era federally incentivized standards would be “rigorous” and also “level the playing field.” The Common Core State Standards Initiative boasted that the standards are “important” because:
[h]igh standards that are consistent across states provide teachers, parents, and students with a set of clear expectations to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life upon graduation from high school, regardless of where they live. … The standards promote equity by ensuring all students are well prepared to collaborate and compete with their peers in the United States and abroad.
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Common Core is just that, common, in the Easter Shore vernacular.
Hogan needs to read this, since he pushed the KIRWIN PLAN through. Hogan has ruined MD because of these new taxes. What an idiot.
Ummmm
That was the goal of common core
The idea that 100% percent of students can do average or above average work is ludicrous, but millions are being spent in the effort. Everything is spent on the lowest achievers and those who won't work or behave.
Common core was concocted to give certain text book publishers and exam processing companies exclusivity. In exchange these companies provided huge kickbacks to those that wrote the laws.
Common Core is just ANOTHER liberal failure!!!
Not to say that some aspects of Common Core aren't ridiculous, but has anyone thought that possibly the decline in expectations of kids in general may have simply coincided with Common Core? The people who don't actually raise their kids or expect anything out of them are breeding much faster than responsible and educated Americans. They give their kids an iPhone, park them in front of Sponge Bob and Bad Girls Club, and go on about their days. The Common Core just so happened to be at the same time in this social media/reality TV explosion.
You all think this is about common core? Common core is just a branch of the agenda 21. It’s global. It’s back by nine other than bill gates. Ya know the guy for pollution control!? Yes that one. The one the talks about how to depopulate the planet but then want to create and mandate vaccines to “save us all”. Wake up people. Common core was designed to confuse and frustrate. Parents need to give a crap and don’t have this attitude of “just another curriculum change”. It wasn’t. They come for your children with this crap and everyone is complacent. Well I wasn’t. Your kids are poisoned, indoctrinated, without God. That was your fault for thinking the government should raise them.
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And population* control
On the contrary, it's a booming success for them. The dumber your future electorate base the better.
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