Common Core Revisited

On September 9, I attended the NPR-syndicated Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, “Should Schools Embrace the Common Core?” Although it has been reported that close to 80 percent of Americans now oppose the Common Core Standards, the initial poll of the live audience showed that 50 percent of the audience was for, 13 percent against, and 37 percent undecided. So one obvious question is: How much of the audience was made up of people who had some skin in the Common Core game?