The Pioneer Institute recently released a book on why Common Core is bad for American Education. After an introduction by Peter Wood on how Common Core will harm our education system, experts from different fields pick apart the standards, the adoption process, the lowering of college standards, the enormous cost of CCSS, the destruction of the arts and history, and the overall lowering of the bar. Those experts include some names you’ll find familiar like Milgram, Stotsky, and Wurman, whose contributions to education have been critical in an age of bad educational theories and fads.
If you don’t understand Common Core, please pick up a copy of the book. If you do understand Common Core, get further educated on the issues by getting the book.
http://pioneerinstitute.org/drilling-through-the-core/
C-Span also just hosted a book discussion which you can watch here:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?328464-1/book-discussion-drilling-core