The Value of Common Core in Schools

Posted by Michael Haran on Feb 20, 2014 in Common Core State Standards | 0 comments

Santa Rosa Press Democrat 2/6/2014 By: Michael Haran George F. Will’s article (The Common Core is Worth Opposing 1/17/2014) is amazing in its “conservative” mentality. He bashes the Common Core Standards as a continuation of “Fifty years of increasing Washington inputs into K-12 education that has coincided with disappointing cognitive outputs from schools.” Hello? This is exactly why the Standards were enacted.  Will’s reminds us that the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the 1970 General Education Provisions Act an d the 1979 law...