Debate> RESOLVED: EMBRACE THE COMMON CORE; Urgency vs. Following-through on what we’ve started

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Debate Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 In K-12 education, there is nothing more controversial than the Common Core State Standards, national academic standards in English and math. Adopted by more than 40 states, they were developed, in part, to address concerns that American students were falling behind their foreign counterparts and graduating high school without the necessary skills for college and the workforce. But is this the reform we’ve been looking for? Has the federal government overreached and saddled our schools with standards that have been flawed from the start? Or will the Common Core raise the bar and improve the quality of our children’s education?

For: Carmel Martin Exec. VP, Center for American Progress & Fmr. Assistant Secretary of Education  For: Michael Petrilli President, Fordham Institute & Co-Editor, Knowledge at the Core  Against: Carol Burris Principal, South Side High School & Blogger, Washington Post’s “Answersheet”  Against: Frederick Hess Resident Scholar and Director of Educational Policy Studies, AEI MODERATOR John Donvan Author & Correspondent for ABC News

Intelligence Squared Common Core Debate transcript