Common Core or Common failure? Families pull kids out of class

HILLSBORO, Ore. – Nine parents pulled their seventh- and eighth-graders out of math class and started teaching them at home, because they are upset with the new Common Core curriculum that public schools in Oregon are starting this year.  Seventh-grader Amy Craig has always been an "A" student in math until this year. She came home with a "D."  The same thing happened to other students in her school. So their moms got together and decided to teach math themselves – an hour every morning. Then the kids go off to school for the rest of the day.  This is the first school year when every public school in Oregon is using Common Core teaching standards. Forty-five other states use those, too.

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