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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 and listeners share their opinions:
@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@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