Common core Quote by Terry Marselle

“Common Core has basically eliminated kindergarten. Yes, you read that correctly. It has moved the start of formalized instruction from Grade 1 to kindergarten.…

— Terry Marselle

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their…

— David Harsanyi

“Common Core is the debilitating effect of the de-emphasis on knowledge gathering for its own sake. That is, in favor of skill building, problem-solving…

— Terry Marselle

“Once the writers of the Common Core arrived at what standards they concluded were needed to graduate from high school – and to be…

— Terry Marselle

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

— Randy Hultgren

“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.”

— Terry Marselle

Common Core is a big win for education.

— Bill Gates

“Something the Common Core gets wrong from the very beginning: the fact that factual knowledge must precede any skills As”

— Terry Marselle

“You don’t have to use the Common Core or other standard curricula; as long as your children learn to read, write, and calculate it…

— Patrick Farenga

“I was struck by how out of sync the Common Core is with what I consider to be good teaching.”

— Terry Marselle

“Cognitive and social learning cannot break through to a child whose world is intrusively loud, blindingly bright, unbearably malodorous and physically complicated to navigate.”

— Ellen Notbohm

I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5…

— Donald Trump