New Evidence Reveals Full Extent of Common Core’s Historic Failure

New Evidence Reveals Full Extent of Common Core’s Historic Failure
"...Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming evidence of the slow-motion train wreck that has resulted – reduced student achievement by almost every metric. 
Fordham refuses even to acknowledge the bad news, much less try to rationalize it.
...Study authors Ted Rebarber of AccountabilityWorks and Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute advocate restoring genuine diversity in education models by removing centralized government control over K-12 school standards.
But the prelude to that argument came from Rebarber, who minced no words in describing the doleful effect of Common Core on education.
“In my view,” Rebarber observed, “[Common Core] is really the worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years.”
...Rebarber focused on scores of the bottom quartile of students, those who were already behind – “the students that were touted as the target for improvement.”
Under Common Core, these students’ performance has fallen..."
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