The
Common Core: Educational Redeemer or Rainmaker?
by Julie L.
Pennington ,Kathryn M. Obenchain ,Aimee Papola & Leia Kmitta — October 12,
2012
The Common Core State
Standards are poised to guide U.S. educational practice and assessment for the
coming years. This commentary examines the framing of the argument for the new
standards by the constructors of the CCSS and how the alignment of resources
during the implementation phase is tightly ensconced within the organizations
who drafted the standards.
Framing education as in need of additional rigor
and collective cohesion, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are now
promoted as a redeemer for educational reform while No Child Left Behind
quietly fades into the background. As states are currently invited to
pursue “relief from provisions of …(NCLB)” (http://www.ed.gov/esea/flexibility),
the CCSS are poised to preside over a movement to (what are self-described as)
more rigorous, more communal and more state-led standards and assessments (http://www.corestandards.org/).
This Article is at Teachers College Record, Date
Published: October 12, 2012
http://www.tcrecord.org <http://www.tcrecord.org/Home.asp>
ID Number: 16902, Date Accessed: 1/2/2013 1:12:19 AM
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