Lies They Told You About Common Core

Amazingly, the Common Core project was sold to state boards and school administrators as "state-led." (See, for example, here.) Even so, it was never designed to be accountable to the states that presumably promoted it despite the well-known fact that the federal government pays for only about 8 to 10 percent of the costs of public education on average across states. How sets of English language arts and mathematics standards (and, later, matching science standards) created by non-experts selec

Amazingly, the Common Core project was sold to state boards and school administrators as "state-led." (See, for example, here.) Even so, it was never designed to be accountable to the states that presumably promoted it despite the well-known fact that the federal government pays for only about 8 to 10 percent of the costs of public education on average across states. How sets of English language arts and mathematics standards (and, later, matching science standards) created by non-experts selec…