NJ Education Report

Max Marchitello at the progressive Center for American Progress:

[A]mong African Americans and Latinos, support for the Common Core has been and remains strong. Polls conducted over the course of the year find African American support for the Common Core has remained at a solid 80 percent consistently, with Hispanic support just a few points lower. Further, African American and Hispanic support for the Common Core has been consistently higher than general levels of support for the standards, even when the overall public support for the Common Core has fallen. In 2013, polls found that at least two-thirds of voters wanted students to be taught the standards; today, that figure is closer to half. But with so many politicians and pundits inaccurately arguing that the Common Core constitutes a federal intrusion, it’s unclear how much of this dip in popularity among voters can be attributed to the politicization of the brand. Conversely — and perhaps not surprisingly — when you drop the Common Core label, support for college-and-career ready standards jumps 15 points.