Who opposes the Common Core and why?

12. Who opposes the Common Core and why?

Education professionals, policy analysts, and government officials center their critiques of the Common Core on four points: the standards are pedagogically nonsensical and academically deficient, the standards will not fix the broken education system, the method of implementing the standards is flawed and expensive, and the federal government has overstepped its bounds.

Five members of the Common Core Validation Committee refused to validate the standards.¹ Three of these individuals—R. James Milgram (professor of mathematics emeritus at Stanford), Sandra Stotsky (professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas and member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education), and Ze’ev Wurman (a U.S. Department of Education official during the Bush administration)—have collaborated to write two studies that condemn the academic merit of the standards.


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