Poll: Teachers, Public Sour on Common Core Standards

Poll: Teachers, Public Sour on Common Core Standards: Public support for the national education standards known as Common Core is falling, though a slight majority remains in favor, a new poll finds. Less than half of teachers surveyed back Common Core, however.

The poll by Education Next, a journal from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, found that public support for the Common Core standards in reading and math dropped from 65 percent last year to 53 percent now.

Opposition to the education standards doubled, from 13 percent to 26 percent.

The number of teachers who oppose Common Core plummeted: Last year, 76 percent of teachers supported the national standards, with 12 percent opposed. Today, 46 percent of public school teachers say they support Common Core, with 40 percent opposed.

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