Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy

by Nicholas Tampio

Book Overview

How the Common Core standardizes our kids' education--and how it threatens our democracy.

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 book, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421424630
• ISBN13: 9781421424637
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"