Columnist Questions Whether Standards Matter

Mary McConnell writes in a Deseret (UT) News (4/4) column, "When the debate over the common core standards first erupted, my initial reaction was, 'do standards really matter that much, anyway?'" McConnell makes the point that "standards seldom change what happens in the classroom, and that's where really education reform needs to happen," arguing that "Common Core doesn't matter because standards mostly don't matter."