I just looked up common core education and read a couple of news articles. Apparently California is where this began and was implimented nationwide immediately replacing the former standards without any trial. And the new plan is to take 3 - 4 years to change from this one but not to any previous standard but another modified version of this new common core. It's really sad that our education system has come to this that they "fix" what isn't broken immediately and take an even longer period of time to even try to unfix it. I work in the corporate world and this seems all too similar with how things are developing in the current corporate environment where someone who has an idea is given free reign to impliment their idea not because it's any better but just to please a small group or someone who's "in charge" that their idea is brilliant just to feed someones ego.