How does Common Core relate to economic aspects?
Spending:
-Eliminates the need of states to pay for the development, scoring, and reporting of their own mandated tests.
-According to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, costs for implementing the standards will vary from state to state. States already spend significant amounts of money on professional development, curriculum materials, and assessments, and there will be some additional costs as well, including training the teachers to teach the standards and purchasing new materials. The standards also provide opportunities for states to save resources by using technology, and taking advantage of cross-state opportunities that come from sharing consistent standards.1
Kansas House and Senate: A new issue emerged in budget negotiations recently when Senate Ways and Means Committee leaders proposed prohibiting either the state or school districts from spending any state money to implementing Common Core academic standards.2
International Implications:
Compare well with the standards of other countries:
A 2012 study conducted by William Schmidt and Richard Houang-
Education researchers at Michigan State University found that the Common Core math standards were highly related to those of high-performing countries. As in these countries, the Common Core includes fewer topics for students to master each year. The grade-levels for given topics also tended to match, according to the analysis.
Other studies opposed this:
Study led by University of Pennsylvania education school dean Andrew Porter, found less congruence between the Common Core and the standards in three other countries (Finland, New Zealand and Sweden). Observers and other researchers have criticized this study, but Porter hasn’t been alone in his concern that the Common Core standards are less rigorous than they could have been, particularly in math. 3
Spending:
-Eliminates the need of states to pay for the development, scoring, and reporting of their own mandated tests.
-According to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, costs for implementing the standards will vary from state to state. States already spend significant amounts of money on professional development, curriculum materials, and assessments, and there will be some additional costs as well, including training the teachers to teach the standards and purchasing new materials. The standards also provide opportunities for states to save resources by using technology, and taking advantage of cross-state opportunities that come from sharing consistent standards.1
Kansas House and Senate: A new issue emerged in budget negotiations recently when Senate Ways and Means Committee leaders proposed prohibiting either the state or school districts from spending any state money to implementing Common Core academic standards.2
International Implications:
Compare well with the standards of other countries:
A 2012 study conducted by William Schmidt and Richard Houang-
Education researchers at Michigan State University found that the Common Core math standards were highly related to those of high-performing countries. As in these countries, the Common Core includes fewer topics for students to master each year. The grade-levels for given topics also tended to match, according to the analysis.
Other studies opposed this:
Study led by University of Pennsylvania education school dean Andrew Porter, found less congruence between the Common Core and the standards in three other countries (Finland, New Zealand and Sweden). Observers and other researchers have criticized this study, but Porter hasn’t been alone in his concern that the Common Core standards are less rigorous than they could have been, particularly in math. 3