30 Issues | What's So Good (or Bad) About Common Core?

Diane Ravitch, historian, research professor of education at New York University and author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books, 2011), discusses whether or not the Common Core education standards will raise achievement levels for students.

@BrianLehrer Making fun of Math questions is fine. But the point is to know how to get to an answer, not just the answer. This is good, no?

— Brendan McBryan (@BrendanMcBryan) September 8, 2016