How to Clean Up the Common Core Mess in Massachusetts

Abstract

With the onset of Common Core, Massachusetts’s education standards for public schools have declined. How can the state regain lost ground? It’s actually not that hard. Solid standards already exist. What’s needed is the will to implement them. Massachusetts can again develop effective non-Common Core standards for mathematics and English/reading if the state legislature requires either a return to the state’s pre-Common Core standards in English language arts/reading, science, or mathematics, or the development of K-12 standards in mathematics and in English/reading with the following features and guiding policies.

Keywords

• education standards
• content standards
• elementary and secondary education
• massachusetts
• common core
• public schools
• math education
• ela
• english education
• reading education
• education reform
• curriculum and instruction