Educator and writer Peter Greene, writing form Huffington Post:
The Common Core is not a national curriculum, because it is not a curriculum at all. It is only a set of standards, and that’s completely different from the scope and sequence of curriculum planning.
As angry villagers storm the Common Core Castle with pointy sticks and burny things, CCSS defenders keep repeating the curriculum/standards explanation over and over. And here’s the thing — theoretically, they aren’t wrong. But like that terrible Match.com date you went on, the standards/curriculum distinction only looks good on paper. Even though the Common Core shouldn’t have to lead to a nationalized curriculum, they almost certainly will.
I am not a scholar or professional consultant in this field, so I’m going to approach this from a layman’s perspective. Let’s look at how this is going to work.