Common Core

Common Core

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Vaccine Patents, Grief Crisis, Early Alzheimer’s

Episode: Vaccine Patents, Grief Crisis, Early Alzheimer’s

  • May 13, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 15:30 mins

Common Core brings up memories of bitter online debates and frustrated school board meetings—why? It started out as an idealistic, promising effort to improve American education. Tom Loveless, 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.”