> It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education. This assumes that common core w

> It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education. This assumes that common core was a good thing, and that the resistance to it was thus incorrect. Which is controversial at best - retrospectives are not generally positive. > A decade later, scant evidence exists that Common Core produced any significant benefit. One federally funded evaluation actually estimates that the standards had a negative effect on student achievement in both reading and math. Fortunately, the overall impact is quite small. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/05/common-core-failed-school-reform/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/05/common-c... > By 2017 — seven years after most states had adopted them — the standards appear to have led to modest declines in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/29/21121004/nearly-a-decade-later-did-the-common-core-work-new-research-offers-clues https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/29/21121004/nearly-a-decade...