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Support for Common Core Continues to Decline, Poll Says

By Liana Loewus 鈥 August 23, 2016 1 min read
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The dropped from 49 to 42 percent over the last year, according to a poll released today by 91制片厂视频 Next, a K-12 policy journal.

Just three years ago, .

However, the poll, which is in its 10th year of publication, also shows that some of the lack of support may be a branding problem: When asked whether they support 鈥渟tandards for reading and math that are the same across the states鈥 and used for accountability鈥攁 question in which the words common core don鈥檛 appear鈥攑ublic support shot up to 55 percent.

While that characterization reflected the initial promise of the common core, it may not be completely fair at this point. As my colleague , so many states have 鈥渇iddled with, altered, or replaced at least portions of the common core recently, whether the standards are truly the same across state lines might be increasingly up for debate.鈥

In several cases, though, 鈥攍ikely in part an attempt to combat negative perceptions associated with the branding.

EdNext surveyed about 4,200 people in May and June this year. Within the sample, there were 1,571 parents with school-age children in the home and 609 teachers. (Other than those oversamples, the group was nationally representative.)

Among teachers, support for the common core was at 41 percent. That鈥檚 up just slightly from . When the words common core aren鈥檛 mentioned, 46 percent of teachers say they support standards that are the same across the states鈥攄own 2 percent from 2015.

Looking just at parents, support for the common-core standards is waning, the poll shows. Forty-two percent of parents support them, down from 47 percent last year.

Interestingly, the reverse is true when parents were asked about the standards without the common-core branding. Fifty-seven percent of parents said they support such standards鈥攗p from just half of parents in 2015.

For comprehensive coverage of the survey, .

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A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.