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by laverya 1894 days ago
> It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education.

This assumes that common core was a good thing, and that the resistance to it was thus incorrect. Which is controversial at best - retrospectives are not generally positive.

> A decade later, scant evidence exists that Common Core produced any significant benefit. One federally funded evaluation actually estimates that the standards had a negative effect on student achievement in both reading and math. Fortunately, the overall impact is quite small.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/05/common-c...

> By 2017 — seven years after most states had adopted them — the standards appear to have led to modest declines in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/29/21121004/nearly-a-decade...