In news bulletins: Common Core Used Widely, Despite Continuing Debate

While there may be disagreement over if the Common Core standards are improving student performance, most states that adopted the standards are with them, notes Maria Danilova within a AP story that ran while in the Washington Post.

Of the states that opted in following your standards were introduced this season – 45 in addition to the District of Columbia – only eight have moved to repeal the standards, largely as a result of political pressure from individuals that saw Common Core as infringing on local control, reported by Abt Associates, a probe and consulting firm.

Danilova points out that:

A national survey by Education Next, a journal provided by Harvard’s Kennedy School and Stanford University, discovered that support for nationwide academic standards rose over the past 24 months, provided the name common core isn’t used.

A discussion from the eating habits study that national survey can be found in the fresh issue of Education Next:?“The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform,” by Martin R. West, Michael B. Henderson, Paul E. Peterson and Samuel Barrows.