California Researchers Conclude that Common Core Standards Benefit Neither Students Nor Teachers

FEATURING RICK AYERS – A large group of researchers in California has just released findings on the Common Core standards used in schools and its accompanying standardized testing. CARE-ED, the California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education, has found that the new curriculum doesn’t just help – it could be harming children.

Here is an excerpt from the brief that CARE-ED released:

“Although proponents argue that the CCSS promotes critical thinking skills and student-centered learning (instead of rote learning), research demonstrates that imposed standards, when linked with high-stakes testing, not only deprofessionalizes teaching and narrows the curriculum, but in so doing, also reduces the quality of education and student learning, engagement, and success.”

Download the research brief HERE.

Rick Ayers, Assistant Professor of Education (in Teacher Education) at the University of San Francisco.