Taking the Long View of Virginia's Decisions on Common Core Standards: A Lesson in Values, Power, and Complexity

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: Comparative Education Policy

Abstract

This proposal reports the preliminary findings of a study that uses complexity theory to understand why education stakeholders in the Commonwealth of Virginia decided to reject the adoption of Common Core standards.

Authors

• Jay Paredes Scribner, Old Dominion University

• Angela Rhett, Newport News Public Schools

• Karen L. Sanzo, Old Dominion University