Common Core Catches On With Private Schools

Common Core Catches On With Private Schools

Alan Portillo, front left, teams with Melanie Zarco to evaluate each other's writing work in a 5th grade classroom at the Mother of Sorrows School in Los Angeles, which is implementing the common standards. Many Roman Catholic dioceses across the country have embraced the common core.
Alan Portillo, front left, teams with Melanie Zarco to evaluate each other's writing work in a 5th grade classroom at the Mother of Sorrows School in Los Angeles, which is implementing the common standards. Many Roman Catholic dioceses across the country have embraced the common core.
—Jamie Rector for Education Week

States' adoption of standards creates pressure

By Erik W. Robelen
Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.

The common standards aren't just for public schools, it seems.

With all but four states having adopted them since 2010, districts have little choice but to implement the Common Core State Standards. But many private schools are also making the transition.

More than 100 Roman Catholic dioceses spanning the nation from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, have decided to adopt the standards, according to a recent survey from the National Catholic Educational Association. Even the El Paso Diocese in Texas, a state that wanted no part of the common standards, signaled last spring that it was signing on.

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