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June 30, 2011

Fog of Common Core (Lessons from Arizona's Adoption)

David Griffith:

Today marks one year since Arizona adopted the common core state standards, but you wouldn't know it based on any information provided by public officials or the press in Arizona. Indeed, you would have an impossible time finding any details about the Arizona State Board's official action to adopt the standards.

Last year, I wrote about the bizarre situation where states that were completely overhauling their K-12 reading and math standards in favor of the more advanced, 21st century common core state standards were not only downplaying this standards transformation, but in some instances, also appeared to be proactively burying the information.

Arizona fell into this last group as I mentioned last July:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 30, 2011 2:59 AM
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