military on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and will level academic achievement levels across states, the latter being particularly important in the context of frequently military family move
The Heritage Foundation argues that the Common Core's focus on national standards will do little to fix deeply ingrained problems and incentive structures within the education system.
The nonprofit National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) argues that assessments developed to measure the Common Core standards will mean more, but not much better, tests in schools that are already suffering from too much testing and teaching to the test.[
adoption of the Common Core Standards and how to best test students are two separate issues
The liberal critique of Common Core is that this a huge profit-making enterprise that costs school districts a tremendous amount of money, and pushes out the things kids love about school, like art and music
Solid curricula, excellent teaching, good assessment, sound accountability systems, and many other things must fall into place for the promise of standards to be realized.
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experienced the adoption of several sets of new standards (called "frameworks
every three
Standards do not matter very much
huge number of policy pieces must fall into place
Perhaps strong curriculum should be developed first
On the basis of past experience with standards, the most reasonable prediction is that the common core will have little to no effect on student achievement
You have some members of Congress who think the federal government has no role in public education, not as a backstop for accountability, not as a partner for enforcing laws and expanding educational opportunity and not as a supporter of innovation