Tag: Common Core

Charges of federal overreach have plagued the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) since the Obama administration’s decision to tie adoption of common K-12 standards to the $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative (e.g., McCluskey 2010; Whitehurst 2010). In the words of Pennsylvania State Representative Glenn Thompson, this decision has transferred the Standards “from

  One of the lessons from David Tyack and Larry Cuban’s classic book on educational reform, Tinkering Towards Utopia (1995), is that reforms are enacted when they are supported by a diverse coalition. In other words, reforms are enacted when multiple groups believes that the same reform policy will serve their differing purposes. This certainly seemed

  The economic consequences of dropping out of high school are severe. In 2010, the difference in annual earnings between workers with some high school education and those who had completed high school was about $10,000 (U.S. Department of Education 2011). For many families, this represents the difference between life above or below the poverty