"The development and use of the Common Core State Standards offer a unique and important opportunity to examine potential transformations underway in the organization and delivery of instruction in the unequal terrain of American schooling."
Susan Moffitt, Watson faculty
October 4, 2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —A team of researchers from Brown University, the University of Michigan and Stanford University has received nearly $5 million in grant funding to study the impact of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, (CCSS) a much-debated set of K-12 academic standards that aims to address educational inequality in the United States.
The project, “Under Construction: The Rise, Spread and Consequences of the Common Core State Standards Initiative in the U.S. Educational Sector,” will look at how governmental and non-governmental stakeholders are responding to the Common Core.
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