With her endorsement of a national curriculum, as well as national standards and tests, Ravitch was arguably even more zealous than other champions of standards reform at the time. And because of her reputation as one of the nation’s most esteemed education scholars, her Times article provided encouragement to the Washington-based organizations—including the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers—that were beginning to push for the adoption of national standards, and whose efforts led a few years later to the creation of the Common Core. Borrowing from Ravitch, these groups argued that the United States couldn’t improve the public schools if it continued to follow a strategy of 50 states, 50 standards, 50 tests.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 12:21:05 +0000
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