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Christie: Dump Common Core education standards

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PEMBERTON — Navigating New Jersey interests and a likely presidential campaign, Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday proposed dropping national Common Core education standards he once supported but have since become a lighting rod issue for Republican voters. The governor, speaking at Burlington County College in Pemberton, declared Common Core is “simply not working.” Christie wants to…

Posted: May 28th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Chris Christie, Education | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

One Comment on “Christie: Dump Common Core education standards”

  1. Steve Adams said at 10:31 am on May 29th, 2015:

    I have never heard a good reason for not using tests to determine when education is succeeding and where it is not.

    The current tests should be evaluated against whatever comes next. Eliminating the tests would be a horrible injustice to the children in NJ that don’t get the education they deserve.