After all, Common Core has worked well in so many other ways.

Andrew Desiderio writes at the College Fix.

Common Core Advocates Push for Curriculum’s Use in College Admissions

Even as several state leaders repeal their acceptance of the controversial “Common Core” federal standards for K-12 schools, the curriculum’s proponents are pushing for it to be used in college admissions.

“We don’t want this effort to stop at the college door,” Lindsey Tepe, an education policy program associate at the New America Foundation, told Real Clear Policy, adding that the Common Core standards were “developed with the idea that they are college- and career-readiness standards.”

“If states have made a commitment to college- and career-readiness standards and assessments,” Tepe said, “it seems very silly that they would not also then say that if you meet your state’s standard, that should then qualify as a minimum admissions standard to the lowest tier of four-year universities in that state.”

Tepe speaks on behalf of the New America Foundation, described as “one of the most prosperous and influential think tanks in Barack Obama’s Washington,” with financial backers that include the Soros family and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In recent months, Bill Gates has been increasingly credited with spearheading Common Core’s creation and implementation.

But while big names back the push for these embattled federal standards, not everyone’s convinced Common Core assessments should be used for college admissions.

“The central problem with using Common Core as the standard for immediate, non-remedial entrance into all colleges is that it is a low standard fit, not for all college admissions, but for two-year community colleges,” Joy Pullmann, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and managing editor of School Reform News, told The College Fix.