{"id":1474,"date":"2012-06-10T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T20:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2012-06-10T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T20:39:05","slug":"putting-a-price-tag-on-the-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/putting-a-price-tag-on-the-common-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting a Price Tag on the Common Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On May 30, the Fordham Institute released a new report evaluating the potential cost of implementing the Common Core, the first in a wave of such evaluations.\u00a0 This report addresses three key questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. What are the short-term costs of moving to the Common Core?\u00a0 In other words, what will be the initial expenses (instructional materials, assessment tools, professional development, etc.)?<\/li>\n
  2. To what extent do costs vary based on the approaches that states take to implement the standards?<\/li>\n
  3. How much of what states currently spend on standards implementation could be repurposed for Common Core implementation?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The authors created three hypothetical approaches to implementing the Common Core in order to examine these questions.\u00a0 The models are only for the transitional phase of implementation, which they estimate to span 1 \u2013 3 years prior to full implementation in 2014-15.\u00a0 The model approaches are:<\/p>\n