The Common Core Standards were adopted by forty-four states as an effort to improve student results in a variety of math and reading curriculum. Yet a recent study suggest that not only has improvement stagnated under the initiative, it might have resulted in worse performances.
According to a study at Education Week, scores have stalled or decreased--and by their metric of scoring (high school graduation rates, proficiency scores on tests, per pupil spending)--no state garnered an "A" grade. The best is Massachusetts, which earned a "B."
The American southwest/lower midwest is where the most troubling grades occur, with four of the five worst states residing there.
The five worst:
5. Arizona (D+)
4. Oklahoma (D+)
3. New Mexico (D)
2. Nevada (D)
Nevada holds the honor--or disturbance--of having the lowest percentage of graduating students from high school, at 60%.
But the worst state for education, according to Education Week's study?
1. Mississippi (D)
Only 22% of Mississippian students in 4th and 8th grade are deemed proficient in either math or reading.
Sometimes it's hard picking on a state that's only found success in failure.
