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Nationalizing School Standards Through ObamaCore
Not thinking critically: Advocates of Common Core accuse detractors of letting partisan beliefs stop needed national standards. Not only do national standards not foretell the quality of public schooling, Common Core actually lowers school standards nationally, rather than increase them. Not thinking critically: Advocates of Common Core accuse detractors of letting partisan beliefs stop needed national standards. Not only do national standards not foretell the quality of public schooling, Common Core actually lowers school standards nationally, rather than increase them.
Item: In the New York Times for December 27, 2014, in an article entitled “Rage Against the Common Core,” David Kirp writes: “Starting in the mid-1990s, education advocates began making a simple argument: National education standards will level the playing field, assuring that all high school graduates are prepared for first-year college classes or rigorous career training.”
Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, asserted that the “movement took off in 2008, when the nation’s governors and education commissioners drove a huge effort to devise ‘world-class standards,’ now known as the Common Core.”
Saying that the Obama administration “didn’t craft the standards,” he acknowledged that “it weighed in heavily, using some of the $4.35 billion from the Race to the Top program to encourage states to adopt not only the Common Core (in itself, a good thing) but also frequent, high-stakes testing (which is deeply unpopular). The mishandled rollout turned a conversation about pedagogy into an ideological and partisan debate.”
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