{"id":869,"date":"2014-08-19T22:27:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T02:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=869"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T02:27:59","slug":"does-the-common-core-have-a-branding-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/08\/19\/does-the-common-core-have-a-branding-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Common Core Have a Branding Problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Does the Common Core Have a Branding Problem?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/authors\/2389-susan-berfield\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Berfield<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0August 19, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The Common Core State Standards, a set of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corestandards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">educational guidelines<\/a>\u00a0that were initially adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia to improve the college and career readiness of high school graduates, have become increasingly controversial. A new poll by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/educationnext.org\/2014-ednext-poll-no-common-opinion-on-the-common-core\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Education Next<\/i><\/a>, a journal published by Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institution that supports the Common Core, suggests part of the problem may be the standards\u2019 name. As the authors write, \u201cThe words \u2018Common Core\u2019 elicit greater antagonism than does the concept of common standards itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-08-19\/does-the-common-core-have-a-branding-problem\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-08-19\/does-the-common-core-have-a-branding-problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Common Core Have a Branding Problem? By\u00a0Susan Berfield\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0August 19, 2014 The Common Core State Standards, a set of\u00a0educational guidelines\u00a0that were initially adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia to improve the college and career readiness of high school graduates, have become increasingly controversial. A new poll by\u00a0Education Next, a journal published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-standards","tag-commoncore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}