Dr. David Wright, math professor at BYU, just published this op-ed in the Deseret News on concerns about common core math implementation in Utah (leave comments on DNews site) and has given me permission to re-post his article. I share Dr. Wright’s concerns on the implementation of Common Core math standards in Utah and am grateful he has spoken out. This quote is from the American Educational Research Association and contradicts the claims made by the USOE that Common Core was internationally benchmarked.

“International Benchmarking
Wisconsin’s SEC database contains some information on content standards for other countries. In mathematics, there are data for Finland, Japan, and Singapore on eighth-grade standards; alignments to the U.S. Common Core are .21, .17, and .13, respectively. All three of these countries have higher eighth-grade mathematics achievement levels than does the United States. The content differences that le