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The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools the Impact of Common Core on American Education.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781475814293
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LB3060 .W766 2015
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Subject: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into the "seeds" that produced the Common Core Standards, as well as the groups involved in the political and corporate pressure to revamp America's K-16 education system.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Seeds of the Common Core; 2 Assessments; 3 Preparing Twenty-First-Century College- and Career-Ready Students; 4 Follow the Funding; 5 The Core of the Core; 6 The Common Core Standards; 7 Common Core Myths, Facts, and Realities; 8 Common Core Considerations, Constituencies, and Competition; About the Author.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the newest national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002 incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into the "seeds" that produced the Common Core Standards, as well as the groups involved in the political and corporate pressure to revamp America's K-16 education system.

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