Abstract
The Spring 2013Books, Articles, and Items of Academic Interest reviewedHow Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk, a Pioneer Institute white paper by NAS members Sandra Stotsky and Mark Bauerlein. Evaluating the English Language Arts (ELA) standards proposed for the Common Core initiative, the authors criticized the lack of specific textual content: “Apart from Shakespeare and a few informational documents, authors and titles are missing” (http://pioneerinstitute.org/download/howcommon-cores-ela-standards-place-college-readiness-at-risk/). This summer, the Honorable William H. Young, a former White House domestic policy advisor for George H.W. Bush, offered his own review of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a series of articles posted on the NAS website (http://www.nas.org/articles/ common_core_state_standards_an_overview). Young’s thesis supports CCSS, on the grounds that it “establish[es] a higher floor—not a ceiling—for academic achievement.” For Young, other policy levers simply have not been sufficiently effective in raising standards (e.g., No Child Left Behind), for they have not attended to the foremost factor: the curriculum. Quoting a 2012 Brookings Institution paper, Young argues that “there is strong evidence that the choice of Acad. Quest. (2013) 26:510–517 DOI 10.1007/s12129-013-9384-1
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