Show Me the Equity: What is Money Buying in the Common Core Reform?

In this talk, Mindy will explore the meaning of equity under the Common Core reform, drawing on interviews with the reform’s leaders across the country. She will also present findings about federal and philanthropic funding to advance the reform, based on her research team’s analyses of federal, state, and foundation documents. She and the Brown Bag participants together will consider the ways in which the flow of money to support the Common Core intersects with the leaders’ views of equity and how equity might be advanced by the reform.
 

Mindy Kornhaber is an associate professor at Penn State. She joined the faculty in 2001 after serving as a researcher at Harvard University for more than a decade. Her work draws equally from the fields of social policy and human development and focuses on two related questions: How do institutions and the policies surrounding them enhance or impede the development of individual potential? How can individual potential be developed both to a high level and on an equitable basis? For the past several years, she has been concerned with testing policies and their influence on educational equity and students' intellectual development. She is also concerned with assessment, educational equity, how theories of intelligence influence school practice, and school reform.