Peter Gray makes a case that Common Core had an adverse effect on public schools. But I think that there were many factors making schools worse over the past fifty years. Parents and individual teachers used to have much more influence and involvement, but now teachers' unions, consolidated school district bureaucracies, and the Department of Education all are disempowering parents and teachers.
Peter Gray makes a case that Common Core had an adverse effect on public schools. But I think that there were many factors making schools worse over the past fifty years. Parents and individual teachers used to have much more influence and involvement, but now teachers' unions, consolidated school district bureaucracies, and the Department of Education all are disempowering parents and teachers.
I agree, and elsewhere I have argued that schooling continued to become more stressful over decades. But NCLB and the programs that it induced--typified by Common Core--caused a bigger change, over a shorter period, than had happened before.
Peter Gray makes a case that Common Core had an adverse effect on public schools. But I think that there were many factors making schools worse over the past fifty years. Parents and individual teachers used to have much more influence and involvement, but now teachers' unions, consolidated school district bureaucracies, and the Department of Education all are disempowering parents and teachers.
I agree, and elsewhere I have argued that schooling continued to become more stressful over decades. But NCLB and the programs that it induced--typified by Common Core--caused a bigger change, over a shorter period, than had happened before.