Common Core: Another Johnny-come-lately, one-size-fits-all national standard that attempts to fix a problem created by the original national standard; our public school system
Common Core, an education program developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve academic standards in public schools, will fall far short of its stated objective.
Its promoters tout it to be a “state-led effort to establish a single set of clear educational standards for English-language arts and mathematics...” to provide teachers, parents and students with a set of well defined expectations and “[h]igh standards that are consistent across states...”
Underlying these statements is the proposition public schools are not performing very well or completely failing to educate students to a necessary standard.
