Seventy percent of Missouri schools implementing Common Core Standards

When Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro issued a news release earlier this week noting that 70 percent of Missouri schools are implementing Common Core Standards, she neglected to add one pertinent bit of information- they are doing it at gunpoint.

An article in today's Kansas City Star takes a look at Ms. Nicastro's claim:

Critics argue that these demonstrations of support are skewed by the fact that states and districts have been put under pressure to adopt the standards.

“Districts know they have to implement the Common Core,” said James Shuls, education policy analyst for the Show-Me Institute.

To say that states should continue implementing the standards because their school districts are heavily invested “is a faulty mindset,” he said Friday. “That doesn’t mean they should continue.”

Who would have ever thought I would agree with someone who works for Rex Sinquefield's Show-Me Institute?

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/09/4610369/seven-out-of-10-missouri-school.html#storylink=cpy