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Education

What's going on with Common Core?

Michigan Public | By Stateside Staff

Published September 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM EDT

Children in a classroom — More than 70% of charter school leaders surveyed expect to leave their schools in five years, according to a study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

You might have heard about the Common Core education standards and maybe a bit about the fuss over these new standards. We wanted to get a little more information about what’s going on.

We talked to Michael Brickman, the national policy director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank.

Listen to the full interview above.