COMMON CORE,UNCOMMON

POLITICSPatrick McGuinn, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Political Science &

Education  Chair, Department of Political Science

Drew University

Growing Opposition?

39%

Common

Core

What’s that?

Public Polling

Party LineNational

Standards

Rorschach Test: Not a single opposition

but many different oppositions

Rorschach Test: Not a single opposition

but many different oppositions

Common Core as a Symbol

February 10, 1993

Mission Impossible?

Educators confront tough

task of rethinking goals

January 19, 1994Standards In Collision

April 12, 1995Backlash Puts Standards Work In Harm's Way

April 12, 1995

Standards: Running Out of Steam

The War in Cyberspace

Top 1% most prolific #CommonCore tweeters from Aug 2013 thru Feb 2014(Del Fresno, Daly & Supovitz, 2014)

Implementation

Political Turnover and Ownership of the Core

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Teachers and Principals are Key… but Policy Conflation Problem

Common Core

accountability systems

assessments

teacherevaluations