Authoritative Books/Papers on Common Core
Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the CCSS
Edited by Kirsten Lombard, Resounding Books, Madison, WI, 2015
Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for American Education, Peter Wood, Ed., Pioneer Inst., 2015
The Long War and Common Core, Donna H. Hearne, Freedom Basics Press, St, Louis, Mo. 2015
The Story-Killers, Terrence O. Moore, PhD., 2013
“Common Does Not Equal Excellent”, Erin Tuttle, J.R. Wilson, American Principles Project, Jan. 2016
The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents, Joy Pullman, Encounter Books, Apr 2017
Pioneer Institute White Papers on Common Core
pioneerinstitute.org/common-core/
The Revenge of K-12: How Common Core and the New SAT Lower College
Standards – “likely to hurt low-income students the most”
By Richard R. Phelps and R. James Milgram Sept. 2014
Imperiling the Republic: the Fate of U.S. History Instruction under Common Core
by Ralph Ketcham, Anders Lewis, Sandra Stotsky August 2014
Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core and National Testing
by Emmett McGroarty, Joy Pullman and Jane Robbins May 2014
The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction
by Anthony Esolen, Jamie Highfill and Sandra Stotsky April 2014
Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School
Students for STEM by R. James Milgram and Sandra Stotsky Sept. 2013
How Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk
by Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky Sept. 2012
Controlling Education from the Top: Why Common Core is Bad for America
by Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins May 2012
The Road to a National Curriculum: the Legal Aspects of CCS, Race to the Top and
Conditional Waivers by Robert Eitel, Kent Talbert and Williamson Evers
Feb. 2012
National Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
By Kathleen Madigan, Sandra Stotsky, Ze’ev Wurman July 2010
The Emperor’s New Clothes: National Assessment Based on Weak “College and Career
Readiness Standards” by Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev Wurman May 2010
Fair to Middling: A National Standards Progress Report
by R. James Milgram and Sandra Stotsky March 2010
Why Race to the Middle? First Class State Standards Are Better than Third-Class
National Standards by Ze’ev Wurman and Sandra Stotsky Feb. 2010
