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Common core standards are pretty good, if you have the chance read into them you'll find you agree with most if not all of it.

It's failing stem entirely from implementation and execution (on every level), leaving a lot of people wondering if general standards top-down are even the solution here, seeing how No Child Left Behind was handled.

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Common Core was as much about the "common" as it was about the "core." It's not the previous standards were bad (or even different from current standards) but that there were 50 of them instead of one nationwide.

Which is fine and all, and the national standard was fine, but for some reason, very big houses of teaching material put their dumbest interns on the job and there was A LOT of teaching material that was downright incompetent, and taught nothing. You could see exactly what it was trying to get at but it was obvious the person who wrote that material never understood the underlying concept themselves.

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