Educators in Indiana and 44 other states that have adopted the Common Core may have to change how they teach when the new academic standards go into effect in 2014.
Concerns are brewing that few educators have any idea how to implement new nationwide academic standards by 2014.
It could cost as much as $278 million for Indiana to adopt new academic standards known as the Common Core. Or it could cost as little as $68 million. That’s the conclusion of a new study from The Fordham Institute that offers three different price tags for the cost of training teachers and purchasing classroom materials to teach [...]
The tools and training teachers need to implement the nationwide standards could be the Common Core’s Achilles heel, writes EdWeek.
Kathleen Porter-Magee studies the state academic standards for the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that generally supports vouchers, charter schools and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. (We wrote about that last week.) She, like many education policy wonks, has her reservations about the Common Core. She worries the new standardized tests [...]
In Indiana and the 44 other states where they’re being implemented right now, education experts say the Common Core State Standards promise to affect everything: states’ evaluations of their schools, districts’ evaluations of their teachers, schools’ evaluations of their students — the list goes on. But successfully putting the new slate of academic standards into practice in [...]
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