Understanding the Failure of Common Core
Hardback
Publication Date: 30/07/2021
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2022 Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too many layers between the state and the classroom for a national standards approach to be effective. Specifically, he emphasizes the significant gap between states' roles in designing education policy and teachers' roles as implementers of policy. In addition, he asserts that top-down policies are unpredictable, subject to political and ideological pressures, and vulnerable to the pendulum effect as new reforms emerge in response to previous ones. One of the most ambitious education reforms of the past century, the Common Core aimed to raise student success, prepare larger numbers of students for both college and careers, and close achievement gaps. Yet, as Loveless documents, a decade later there remains a lack of significant positive impact on student learning. Between the State and the Schoolhouse marks an important contribution to the debate over the standards movement and the role of federal and state governments in education reform.
- ISBN:
- 9781682535912
- 9781682535912
- Category:
- Educational strategies & policy
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 30-07-2021
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Harvard Education Publishing Group (HEPG)
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 228.6x152.4mm
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