Tom Loveless, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has studied NAEP results for years. In this post, he discusses whether the recent flatlining of NAEP was caused by the adoption of the Common Core standards. He says it is too soon to know. We will have to see what happens in 2017 and … Continue reading Tom Loveless: Teaching Fiction Has Declined Since 2011, Likely Because of Common Core