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What Common Core Has Done to Massachusetts

December 12, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

massachusetts-state-flagJamie Gass and Charles Chieppo with the Pioneer Institute highlight in an op/ed in the Worcester News & Telegram how Common Core has impacted education in Massachusetts who once led the nation in K-12 education.

It isn’t pretty.  They write:

 Following the landmark 1993 Education Reform Act that provided public schools with a massive infusion of new money in return for high standards, accountability and more school choice, Massachusetts’ student performance skyrocketed.

In 2005, the commonwealth’s schoolchildren became the first ever to finish first among the states in every category and at every grade level tested on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as “the nation’s report card.” Two years later our students were among the best in the world on international math and science testing.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

SAT scores are down 20 points from their 2006 highs. On the 2013 NAEP, Massachusetts’ five-point decline in fourth-grade reading was the largest in the country.

Third-grade reading scores are the best predictor of future academic success. Last year the percentage of Massachusetts third-graders scoring proficient or advanced on MCAS reading tests fell to its lowest level since 2009. This year they stayed the same. At 57 percent, the portion of third-graders who are at least proficient in reading is 10 points lower than it was in 2002.

Common Core advocates and fans are entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.  The fact is Common Core is destroying the quality of education in Massachusetts.  Read the rest.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Charles Chieppo, Common Core State Standards, Jamie Gass, Massachusetts, MCAS, NAEP, Pioneer Institute, SAT scores

Comments

  1. Melba Desormeaux Smith says

    December 13, 2014 at 9:18 am

    My grandchildren experienced this in a private christian school. Not knowing much about common core, their parent thought they were in a good school. Two years later they were put in a private school with a classical education. They were so behind because of common core. Now they read exceptionally well and their math skills are exceptional.

  2. mjazzguitar says

    December 14, 2014 at 2:29 am

    Couldn’t some of these declines be related to immigration?

    • Garrison says

      December 16, 2014 at 9:45 am

      They are actually more related to an increase in rigor.

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