Pricing the Common Core: How Much Will Smart Implementation Cost States and Districts?

May 30, 2012 at 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST

Location: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute (MAP)
1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20036

Download Patrick J. Murphy's Powerpoint presentation.

The Common Core is coming, with forty-five states and the District of Columbia challenged to implement these new standards. Yet mystery surrounds how much this will cost states (and districts)—and whether the payoff will justify the price.

On May 30, the Fordham Institute will peek behind that curtain with a lively panel discussion of "Pricing the Common Core." Taking part will be former Florida Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith, Achieve President Mike Cohen, former Department of Education official Ze'ev Wurman, and University of San Francisco professor Patrick J. Murphy, who will present the findings of a new Fordham study that he co-authored. It estimates the dollar cost of the implementation process for each participating state—and shows how the pricetag varies depending on the approach a state selects.

Panelists
	Ze'ev Wurman, former senior policy adviser, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education
	Patrick J. Murphy, professor and chair, Department of Politics, University of San Francisco
	Michael Cohen, president, Achieve
	Eric J. Smith, fellow in education policy, George W. Bush Institute and former commissioner, Florida Department of Education
Moderator
	Chester E. Finn, Jr., president, The Thomas B. Fordham Institute

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