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

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 8, 2016

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.

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