To the editor:

What is wrong with working together?

As a former parent of students and now a grandparent of students I watch with some disbelief at the attacks on legitimate efforts to create and maintain some structure and credibility to student learning. The Common Core was a bottom-up effort to create a basic educational format that ensured a universally functional graduate ready for the world. It is necessary to provide some structural approach so that all educators and parents can work together to achieve this outcome.

Concepts of Common Core reflect the observed successes of other countries in the world that exceed our outcomes substantially. It is extremely unfortunate that some political forces with no educational background have convinced others probably of similar ineptitude to follow along in destroying this formula for success.