Are We Beginning To See The Demise Of Common Core?

Since the birth of Common Core in 2009, not one day passed without it being criticized and ridiculed both at home and in mainstream media. The standardization of education across the entire nation has caused such a controversy, spurring protests from parents and stress in students.

The problem with Common Core is its total control over education nationwide. Unique learning needs of each student are dismissed in favor of mandating a new curriculum that has second graders in tears over simple addition. Even parents have no say in their child's education and their concerns are met with condescending remarks, reports the Washington Post. 

According to a recent study by Tom Loveless, a senior fellow of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, Common Core has showed almost no effect on the achievement of students between 2009 and 2015. In a report by the Washington Post, Loveless writes in his findings that "[Common Core's new way of teaching] is associated with a change of no more than a single point (plus or minus) in NAEP for both fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores.

"A change of one NAEP scale point is trivial—and especially so over six years."

Supporters of Common Core stay firm in their belief that this is not the end. The California State Board of Education chair predicts that signs of Common Core's efficacy will show by 2020, a decade since the state adopted it.

Loveless maintains that Common Core's best years are behind it and what we are seeing now is its slow but inevitable demise.