The Common Core and money

The Common Core and money
In response to Democratic state senators in Pennsylvania who recently opposed the Common Core on grounds that poor districts lack funds to implement them, Marc Tucker of the National Center on Education and the Economy, writing in Education Week, has a question: Why do countries spending substantially less per student than the United States produce student achievement way above ours? One answer is that top-performing countries have redesigned their school-finance systems to direct greater resources toward harder-to-educate students. What the Pennsylvania legislators should do, Tucker says, is file bills allocating more money for the harder-to-educate. But it's easier to oppose the Common Core, though it hurts the very people they're supposedly championing. The world now operates according to these tougher standards, anyway: Employers use them, as do graduate schools for the professions. People who can't meet these don't get jobs or a professional education. We must radically change our school-finance systems, and make big changes in teacher compensation, teaching-career structures, standards for getting into teachers' colleges, curricula in teachers' colleges, teacher licensure standards, and the way we support new teachers. The only option these senators really have is to embrace the Common Core and use money they already appropriate to fix our bloated, ineffective system.  More

Source:  Public Education News Blast

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Los Angeles Education Partnership (LAEP) is an education support organization that works as a collaborative partner in high-poverty communities.

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