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What does "common core" have to do with school problems?

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > What does "common core" have to do with school problems?. It's a set of educational standards, and every such set newer than the 1800s is right-wing boogeyman that is attacked for things that are completely unrelated to it's actual content. (Often for doing the exact same thing they accused the last one of doing, where they hope you forget that the collapse of civilization they are predicting from it is the same thing, for the same supposed reason, they predicted from the status quo it is replacing.)
• analog31 5y ago
  When my kids were starting school, I looked it up, just to get an idea of what was being taught these days. Each state had its own web page with the standards laid out in outline fashion. Common Core looked very much like what I had learned in school myself. I think Common Core just gave people an easy focal point of attack, like publishing the salaries of teachers.
• 8note 5y ago
  It imposes constraints on what's taught that doesn't allow for students who are ahead or behind the curriculum. Growing up and learning are messy processes that demand flexible solutions