Education Policy Analyst

Jim Stergios

1 article 2013

Jim Stergios is the executive director of the Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy think tank. He is a prominent critic of the Common Core State Standards Initiative and has written extensively on education policy. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis of the Common Core debate.

The Beginning of Common Core's Trouble

May 29, 2013 · Jim Stergios, Schools, Blog

When President Obama unveiled his Race to the Top initiative in 2009, the idea was to award $4.35 billion in federal grant money to states to replicate policies that boosted student achievement. That quickly changed and the federal money was instead used to persuade states to adopt…