Teachers warming up to Common Core
- October 13, 2014
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
The mission of Common Core was simple: to set educational standards in every state so that everyone is working toward the same goals and measured by the same standards.
Common Core sparked an uncommonly spirited debate that stretched from Florida to California.
The controversy aligned political foes and pitted political allies against each other — though not always from similar reasons.
Florida was one of 45 states and Washington, D.C., that at first adopted the Common Core — until public opposition led Gov. Scott to reject what he called the federal government’s “overreach into our state education system.”
As far as the governor was concerned, the controversial Common Core State Standards was dead on arrival in the Sunshine State.
But a new survey says that teachers are feeling better about using Common Core State Standards in their classrooms when given the time, trust and tools to implement them.
“If you actually talk to the teachers, more of them feel it’s going well,” Mayer said. “They’re seeing their students do better work … there’s more critical thinking and discourse in the classroom. That’s the Common Core becoming established.”Read more about teachers' optimism about Common Core in The Atlantic.
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