MyNDTALK - Common Core - Nicholas Tampio

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative conversation, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits.