In principal, CC is a good thing but in practice, my understanding is it widens the gap between students good students and not so good students. The gap widening is not so much due to pushing the good students farther ahead as it is wiping out the not so good students.
All I know is that my local parochial school is using the common core math as MANDATED by Obama through the Ed Department and I do not even understand the questions in some of my 1st grade sons math homework. I learned math at the same school forty + years ago so well that I tested out of two years of Math in one of the best prep schools in the state and was doing college level math.
There have been so many complaints that the teachers have sent more than one letter home and they have only had school for two months.
Remember, this is 1st grade math in an expensive Catholic School where a vast majority of the parents are professional college educated high earners. We can’t even figure out what they are asking for!
Like everything else Obama related it is a train wreck!
Its a scheme to centralized control of education.
This would be catastrophic not only for a Federation as large and diverse as the USA. (One size does not and can never fit all)
But most specifically for Constitutional democracy which depends upon having a significant population of people with a diversity of knowledge and experience to operate.
Just think about it, how can you debate or analyze any matter in politics if most everyone is only given the same set of politician defined doctrine?