Between the State and the Schoolhouse

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Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too many layers between the state and the classroom for a national standards approach to be effective. His work marks an important contribution to the debate over the standards movement and the role of federal and state governments in education reform. "Tom Loveless has written the definitive work on why federally mandated efforts to reform curriculum and instruction fail. He understands that any successful change must engage those who are expected to make the change happen: teachers. His book should be widely read to dispel the federal obsession of the past forty years with standards, accountability, and testing as levers of change." --Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and Slaying Goliath "Between the State and the Schoolhouse is a measured and clever tour through the Common Core's history, design, and (meager) results, and it utterly brims with lessons that future reformers would be wise to bear in mind." --Eric Kalenze, educator, researchED US organizer, and author of Education Is Upside-Down and What the Academy Taught Us "Tom Loveless uses the case of the Common Core to explain, in clear and engaging prose, how an appreciation and understanding of history and the political forces at play in education can be critical to finding more effective solutions to help children in schools." --Jonathan Wai, assistant professor of education policy and psychology and 21st Century chair, University of Arkansas Tom Loveless is an education researcher, former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former representative of the United States at the General Assembly of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.