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#93 - Should We Embrace The Common Core?

#93 - Should We Embrace The Common Core?

With Carmel Martin, Michael Petrilli, Carol Burris, and Frederick Hess

Open to Debate

September 19, 201453m 38s

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Show Notes

 

In K-12 education, there is nothing more controversial than the Common Core State Standards, national academic standards in English and math. Adopted by more than 40 states, they were developed, in part, to address concerns that American students were falling behind their foreign counterparts. Has the federal government overreached and saddled our schools with standards that have been flawed from the start? The debaters are Carmel Martin, Carol Burris, Michael Petrill, and Frederick Hess.

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