By Alan Greenblatt | Governing Magazine
Common Core has become a toxic brand, the most contentious issue on the education landscape, reviled by partisans at both ends of the political spectrum.
That doesn’t mean it’s going away.
For all the pushback against the Common Core — a set of standards that outline the content and skills students are expected to master at each grade level — more than 40 states are still on board. Efforts to repeal the Common Core this year in Arkansas and Mississippi, for instance, led instead to commissions that will study the issue.
