States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“Common Core is the debilitating effect of the de-emphasis on knowledge gathering for its own sake. That is, in favor of skill… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Emotions might lead to chaos sometimes, but can be a beautiful kind of chaos. - The Return, Book 3 of The Wordwick… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“Common Core's become a one-size-fits-all program that simply doesn't make sense for our state," Jindal said at a news conference.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience Whens the last time you had… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Dr. James Milgram, an actual mathematician from Stanford University who was on the original Common Core math committee in the summer of… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Once the writers of the Common Core arrived at what standards they concluded were needed to graduate from high school – and… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“As much as possible, I am trying to create agency in my young writers. Students who have acquired agency don’t need the… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
“Common Core is rife with developmentally inappropriate cognitive tasks at K-6 levels – and especially at the K-3 level.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Something the Common Core gets wrong from the very beginning: the fact that factual knowledge must precede any skills As” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! — Louis C. K Copy Share Image