How Common Core Damages Students’ College Readiness
Mar 10, 2017
Joy Pullmann
As Massachusetts was considering signing on to a national curriculum and testing plan called Common Core, one of its lead writers gave a presentation to its state board of education. Even Common Core advocate Professor Jason Zimba agreed this national program would prepare students “for the colleges most kids go to, but not for the college most parents aspire to.” Common Core’s graduation requirements are “not for selective colleges,” he continued.
That’s not what a lot of reporters, teachers, and policymakers are telling the public about Common Core.
The New York Times says we can “Credit President Obama and the Common Core Standards for putting the ‘college and career ready’ mantra on the lips of K-12 educators across the country.” Indeed, “college and career readiness” is essentially the motto of Common Core, appearing in its subtitle and 60 times in its 640 pages of curriculum and test mandates.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/03/common-core-damages-students-college-readiness/
