Are Common Core Standards really so different?

01-21-2011

Guest blog by Todd S. Farley/Washington Post

If there’s one thing the uber-confident if minimally experienced education reformers can agree on, it’s that this country’s students need “high standards.” The thought is that the high expectations of “high standards” in our schools will allow the United States to overcome any educational deficiencies we face (even the huge hurdle of our terrible teachers). This clamoring to raise the bar for our students is how we ended up with the revolutionary Common Core Standards, those academic benchmarks the reformers hope will lead us back to an educational promised land (also known as “Finland”). But are the Common Core Standards really “revolutionary”? Or are they fundamentally the same as the sets of standards that currently exist in each of the 50 states, different only in their wording? (more...)

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