A study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute<\/a> reveals a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of the Common Core Curriculum Standards a decade ago.<\/p>\n \u201cNearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Pioneer executive director Jim Stergios in a statement. \u201cThe proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.\u201d<\/p>\n The study, titled \u201cThe Common Core Debacle\u201d<\/a> and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, asserts the \u201cshocking trends\u201d in American student performance in critical math and reading skills since the creation of the U.S. Education Department 40 years ago recommends reevaluation of federal involvement in education.<\/p>\n Performance in reading and math since the adoption of Common Core has especially declined in the nation\u2019s lowest-achieving students \u2013 many of whom come from low-income families and failing public schools \u2013 widening the achievement gap and creating further inequality.<\/p>\n Supporters of Common Core, however,\u00a0touted<\/a>\u00a0the Obama-era federally incentivized standards would be \u201crigorous\u201d and also \u201clevel the playing field.\u201d The Common Core State Standards Initiative\u00a0boasted<\/a>\u00a0that the standards are \u201cimportant\u201d because:<\/p>\n [h]igh standards that are consistent across states provide teachers, parents, and students with a set of clear expectations to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life upon graduation from high school, regardless of where they live. \u2026 The standards promote equity by ensuring all students are well prepared to collaborate and compete with their peers in the United States and abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rebarber observed, however, that while national fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores were rising at about half a point each year from 2003 to 2013,\u00a0since that time, reading scores have\u00a0dropped<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cOver the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance,\u201d Dr. Peggy Carr, associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in October 2019 following the release of the Nation\u2019s Report Card [National Assessment of Educational Progress]\u00a0assessments in math and reading for fourth- and eighth-graders.<\/p>\n \u201cThe lowest performing students \u2013 those readers who struggle the most \u2013 have made no progress in reading from the first NAEP administration almost 30 years ago,\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If a foreign nation forced us to have this kind of education system, it would be seen as an act of war. Study: Historic Drop in U.S. Reading and Math Scores Since Common Core \u2018Debacle\u2019 A study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute reveals a historic drop in national reading and math scores among … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54361,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358\/revisions\/54361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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