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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2014/03/18-common-core-loveless

[quote]The 2012 Brown Center Report predicted, based on empirical analysis of the effects of state standards, that the CCSS will have little to no impact on student achievement.  Supporters of the Common Core argue that strong, effective implementation of the standards will sweep away such skepticism by producing lasting, significant gains in student learning.  So far, at least—and it is admittedly the early innings of a long ballgame—there are no signs of such an impressive accomplishment. [/quote]

Loveless thinks you can draw conclusions.
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I agree with Loveless that you can draw conclusions. The question is, what conclusions?

As it happens, I think it's unlikely that the Common Core standards will produce lasting, significant gains in student learning. That doesn't mean that the Common Core standards are bad. It means that

1. there are many factors that have a much bigger effect on educational outcomes than the standards do -- child poverty being the biggest. If I wanted my cause to be improving educational outcomes in the US, that's where I'd start.
2. the US has yet to implement any lasting educational reform. Even if the Common Core standards were practically perfect in every way (which they're not, nothing is except Mary Poppins), it still wouldn't be long before we move on to the next big idea, whatever it turns out to be.[/quote]

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