Susan Stiner, standing, leads high school educators in a TNCore summer training session at South Pittsburg High School in June.Support for Common Core among Tennessee teachers has waned so much since last year that a majority now opposes the academic standards, a new statewide survey shows.
With the future of Common Core under fire in Tennessee, a new report from the Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation and Development could provide more ammunition to those who want to roll back the standards.
The new 2014 survey, undertaken by a group led by Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education and Human Development and released Wednesday, found that just 39 percent of respondents believe that teaching to the standards will improve student learning - compared with 60 percent who said the same last year.
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