Contributor
Wood, Peter W. (Peter Wyatt), 1953-
Imprint:Boston : Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, c2015.
Description375 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note:How Common Core's ELA standards place college readiness at risk / Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky -- The fate of American history in a Common Core-based curriculum / Ralph Ketcham, Anders Lewis, and Sandra Stotsky -- The fate of poetry in a curriculum for the proletariat / Anthony Esolen, Jamie Highfill, and Sandra Stotsky -- Common Core's mathematics standards still don't make the grade / Ze'ev Wurman -- Lowering the bar: how Common Core math fails to prepare high school students for STEM / R. James Migram and Sandra Stotsky -- The revenge of K-12: how Common Core and new SAT lower college standards in the U.S. / Richard P. Phelps and R. James Milgram -- The road to a national curriculum: the legal aspects of the Common Core standards, race to the top, and conditional waivers / Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, with Williamson S. Evers -- National cost of aligning states and localities to the Common Core standards / AccountabilityWorks.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographic references.
Note:"For the first time in history Americans face the prospect of a unified set of national standards for K-12 education. While this goal sounds reasonable, and Common Core has been presented as a state-led effort, it is anything but. This book analyzes Common Core from the standpoint of its deleterious effects on curriculum-language arts, mathematics, history, and more-as well as its questionable legality, its roots in the aggressive spending of a few wealthy donors, its often-underestimated costs, and the untold damage it will wreak on American higher education. At a time when more and more people are questioning the wisdom of federally-mandated one-size-fits-all solutions, Drilling through the Core offers well-considered arguments for stopping Common Core in its tracks"--p. [4] cover.
