Common Core Dilemma—Who Owns Our Schools? Quotes

“The important lesson from the shifting manner of defining graduation rate is that numbers suit the definitions to which human beings restrict them. There is nothing absolute in reporting a statistic called “graduation rate.” One should take care to consider the definition associated with a number before forming judgments about those to whom the number might be applied as a label.”
― Mercedes K. Schneider, Common Core Dilemma—Who Owns Our Schools?

“Thus, in early 2010, like many teachers across the nation, I was encouraged to embrace the new standards even though they were not yet finished, and I was told that the tests associated with these unfinished standards were going to be difficult (“rigorous”), even though the tests could not possibly exist yet if the standards themselves were not even complete.”
― Mercedes K. Schneider, Common Core Dilemma—Who Owns Our Schools?