Most people have a general sense of what the common core is but they are uneducated just to what it actually entails. In 2009 the standards for teaching in our schools that we know as the common core were launched. According to the common core’s website, corestandards.org, the common core was created in order to have equal standardize across our nation. Before the common core, states were able to mandate their own expectations of their students leading to an unbalanced education system. These standards were set into place in order to prepare students for higher education and careers. Although Common Core isn 't a federal law, the federal government supports it by providing grants that are only available to those states that have adopted its
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Allie Bidwell, an education reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, wrote an article about The Politics of Common Core where she talks about why states are retreating from the Common Core. She mentions in her article a quote from Rick Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, “"People felt like they hadn 't been told about it," says the American Enterprise Institute 's Hess. "To people who were skeptical, they thought, 'How did you sneak this past everybody? '(Bidwell)." Hess and Bidwell were referring to the Common Core set in place by Obama and his administration. States were told that if they adopted the career and college ready standards they would be eligible to receive grants from the government’s Race to the Top funding. Hess argued on behalf of the states that they were not informed of what the Common Core would entail when they adopted the policy and were focused on the idea of being promised money. States that did not adopt the policy and created their own were eligible to apply for the funding, but ended up being turned down. Indiana has put the teaching of the Common Core in classrooms on pause, and will likely be the first of the states to reverse their decision on adopting the
Allie Bidwell, an education reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, wrote an article about The Politics of Common Core where she talks about why states are retreating from the Common Core. She mentions in her article a quote from Rick Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, “"People felt like they hadn 't been told about it," says the American Enterprise Institute 's Hess. "To people who were skeptical, they thought, 'How did you sneak this past everybody? '(Bidwell)." Hess and Bidwell were referring to the Common Core set in place by Obama and his administration. States were told that if they adopted the career and college ready standards they would be eligible to receive grants from the government’s Race to the Top funding. Hess argued on behalf of the states that they were not informed of what the Common Core would entail when they adopted the policy and were focused on the idea of being promised money. States that did not adopt the policy and created their own were eligible to apply for the funding, but ended up being turned down. Indiana has put the teaching of the Common Core in classrooms on pause, and will likely be the first of the states to reverse their decision on adopting the