“Teachers unions shouldn’t be surprised the implementation was botched,” said Lindsey Burke, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. “This is what happens with one-size-fits-all bureaucratic initiatives.”

No truer words have not been spoken up front.  We gone though open classrooms, whole language, Reading First, to many to list over the past 40 years.  They may have been some advantages to the approach but it wouldn't matter- it would fail and so will the Common Core Standards.  Why?  Because the system will not change HOW education is delivered to learners.  

At NGGE, we look at the HOW!