Common Core

Mass. schools must recommit to knowledge-based curriculum

Mass. schools must recommit to knowledge-based curriculum

We’ve been paying the price for straying off course

By E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and Tom Birmingham Common Core, core knowledge, NAEP 0 Comments Jun 4, 2020

LONG BEFORE OTHER states, Massachusetts understood that a democratic republic can’t endure without a good public education system. Its constitution, written by John Adams in 1780, requires that it “cherish” education. The Bay State’s native son Horace Mann pioneered the common school movement, and it was also the first state to have compulsory education for all(...)

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