Two new studies suggest that any positive impact from the Common Core standards on students’ academic progress may either be negligible or indeterminable for years to come.
One year after the Brookings Institution’s 2014 Brown Center Report found that states whose math standards were less like Common Core performed better on national assessments than those that had standards more like Common Core, Brookings senior fellow Tom Loveless discovered only a 1.11-point gain in reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam for states that are considered “strong implementers” of the controversial standards.
The 2015 Brown Center Report examined student progress on the fourth grade NAEP reading exam by analyzing the scores of students in states considered to be “strong implementers” of the standards and those seen as “medium implementers.” The four “non-adopter” states of Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia served as the study’s control group. Continued...
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- March 26, 2015 3:28 pm
