Common Core : National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy /

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The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K-12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative...

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Autor principal: Tampio, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Educational accountability.
Education > Standards.
Education and state.
Democracy.
Decentralization in government.
Central-local government relations.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Relations gouvernement central-collectivites locales > États-Unis.
Responsabilite du rendement (Éducation) > États-Unis.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Democracy > United States.
Central-local government relations > United States.
Decentralization in government > United States.
Educational accountability > United States.
Education and state > United States.
Education > Standards > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Do we need a Common Core?
  • Arguments for national education standards
  • Arguments against national education standards
  • English standards, close reading, and testing
  • Math standards, understanding, and college and career readiness
  • Science standards, scientific unity, and the problem of sustainability
  • History standards, American identity, and the politics of storytelling
  • Sexuality standards, gender identity, and religious minorities
  • Conclusion. Democracy, education standards, and local control
  • Epilogue. Democracy and the test refusal movement.

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