That didn’t take long. While parents in America have been complaining about Common Core for quite a while, now even many teachers don’t like it.

Blake Neff of the Daily Caller reports.

Poll: Public, Teachers Souring On Common Core

A new poll from the group Education Next indicates that support for Common Core education standards has fallen significantly from a year ago.

The largest drop in support has occurred among educators. However, supporters of the new standards are still a slim majority, and significantly outnumber avowed opponents.

From 2013 to 2014, support for Common Core slipped from 65 percent of the public to 53 percent, while opposition doubled from 13 percent to 26 percent.

The decline was driven by a sharp drop in Republican support, which fell from 57 percent to 43 percent, while opposition soared from 16 to 37 percent. Democrats, on the other hand, had a statistically insignificant drop in support from 64 percent to 63 percent.

More dramatic, however, was a sharp change in the attitudes of teachers. In 2013, 76 percent of teachers supported Common Core and just 12 percent were opposed. In a single year, those numbers have shifted to 46 and 40 percent, respectively. Their growing opposition is notable, because the survey also found the teachers to be significantly better-informed about the nature of Common Core compared to the general public.

Common Core has faced attacks of increasing intensity from both the right and the left in past two years. Conservatives argue that the standards amount to a federal takeover of education because the Department of Education has encouraged their adoption, while liberals often complain that the standards encourage school systems to focus excessively on standardized tests.


 
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