Education Week (4/22) runs a package of articles titled “Vision Meets Reality: Common Core in Action,” with the articles exploring how the Common Core Standards have impacted education policy and practice in the US over the past four years. The focus of the package is how the standards’ original conception has “bumped up against reality” as educators work to implement them.
The Hechinger Report (10/18, Wingert) writes that while California has earmarked significant funding for districts to implement the Common Core Standards, “the tricky part is how to spend it.” The piece notes that the difficulty in choosing the best instructional materials “is complicated by the sheer volume of new products that claim to be aligned to the Common Core,” adding that a “multibillion-dollar industry of competing vendors” has arisen to offer “a dizzying array” of instructional products.
