Morgan Polikoff - The Past, Present and Future of the Common Core

USC Rossier Associate Professor Morgan Polikoff joins CPRE's Jonathan Supovitz to talk about Common Core as it currently stands, how it served as the culmination of many past education policy decisions, and what will become of it. -- Jump to Questions: 0:37 - Morgan, before we kick off about learning about what the authors and yourself found in the special issue, the environment has changed quite a bit and the Common Core has stepped a bit out of the spotlight and things are really focused on the Every Student Succeeds Act now, the devolution of authority down to the states so one can you can you talk a little bit about the relevancy of the Common Core in this current environment? 2:46 - Can you just paint a picture of how we got to the Common Core and about previous efforts to use standards as a lever for changing the education system? 5:32 - The special issue that you were the editor of focused on what we know about the impact of the Common Core and of what we know about implementation and perhaps the special issue was in the beginning of 2017 which meant that at least officially there were five years between most states’ adoptions in 2010 and in 2017 although you pointed out that many states are really just starting, but what did you learn from the contributors who looked at the impact of the Common Core in the first five years? 7:28 - Many of the authors in the special issue that you edited focused on implementation issues so can you highlight a couple of the key lessons learned about implementing standards? — The CPRE Knowledge Hub is headquartered at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. For more videos, podcasts, research analysis, and interactive discussion in the realm of education, visit http://www.cprehub.org or follow @cprehub on Twitter.