Common Core

Common Core brings up memories of bitter online debates and frustrated school board meetings—why? It started as an idealistic, promising effort to improve American education. Tom Loveless, a researcher of education and former Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings Institution, conducts an autopsy on Common Core in his new book “Between the State and the Schoolhouse: Understanding the Failure of Common Core.” (Originally aired May 13th, 2021)