In Common No More : The Politics of the Common Core State Standards / Arnold F. Shober.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shober, Arnold F., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Standards--United States--States.

Education.

Common Core State Standards (Education).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Praeger, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

When did the Common Core evolve from pet project to pariah among educators and parents? This book examines the rise and fall of our national education standards from their inception to the present day. Parents, teachers, and political groups have waged debates over the Common Core since the standards' adoption in 2010. This timely examination explores the shifting political alliances related to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, explains why initial national support has faded, and considers the major debates running through the Common Core controversy. The book is organized around four themes of political conflict: federal versus state control, minorities versus majorities, experts versus professionals, and elites versus local preferences. The work reviews the politics of state and national standards, evaluating the political arguments for and against the Common Core: federal overreach, lack of evidence for effectiveness, lack of parental control, lack of teacher input, improper adaptive testing, overtesting, and connections to private education-reform funders and foundations. The work includes a short primer on the Common Core State Standards Initiative as well as on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance, two state-level organizations that have worked on the standards. An informative appendix presents brief descriptions of major interest groups and think tanks involved with the standards initiative along with a timeline of American educational standards reforms and the Common Core.

Contents:

Acknowledgments Abbreviations ONE: The Impossible Dream TWO: A Vision of Equity, Excellence, and Assessment THREE: The Conservative Imagination: States, Evidence, and Partisanship FOUR: A Semblance of Ideology: Parents, Private Schools, and Privacy FIVE: The Ghost of Education Future: Teachers, Tests, and Time SIX: The Reverie of the Left: Foundations, Think Tanks, and Interest Groups SEVEN: Through a Glass Darkly: The Way Forward Appendix A: Key Organizations Appendix B: Timeline Notes Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400669187

9798216101673

9781440837715

1440837716

OCLC:

956332519