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Between the State and the Schoolhouse - Understanding the Failure of Common Core (Paperback)
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Between the State and the Schoolhouse - Understanding the Failure of Common Core (Paperback)
Series: Educational Innovations Series
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Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core
State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its
disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history
of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes
a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and
structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education
policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too many layers
between the state and the classroom for a national standards
approach to be effective. Specifically, he emphasizes the
significant gap between states' roles in designing education policy
and teachers' roles as implementers of policy. In addition, he
asserts that top-down policies are unpredictable, subject to
political and ideological pressures, and vulnerable to the pendulum
effect as new reforms emerge in response to previous ones. One of
the most ambitious education reforms of the past century, the
Common Core aimed to raise student success, prepare larger numbers
of students for both college and careers, and close achievement
gaps. Yet, as Loveless documents, a decade later there remains a
lack of significant positive impact on student learning. Between
the State and the Schoolhouse marks an important contribution to
the debate over the standards movement and the role of federal and
state governments in education reform.
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