Who doesn't want accountability in education? That was the selling point for No Child Left Behind (NCLB). It was the selling point for the Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA) of 1993. It was even a selling point for Finnish reforms in teacher education in 1970.
But how did Congress and most of our education researchers and policy makers get frozen into thinking that test-based accountability is the only kind of accountability?
BOSTON – A new report on Common Core finds that the educational standards' singular focus on workforce preparation conflicts with the larger mission of Catholic schools.
The study, a joint project of the Pioneer Institute and the American Principles Project, traces the history of Catholic school involvement with Common Core and describes the secular pressures that led many Catholic schools to adopt the federally-backed standards before addressing the philosophic incompatibility of the Common Core with Catholic education.
