committee: Dr. Sandra Stotsky (English Language Arts expert, professor emerita and former senior associate commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education) and Dr. James Milgram (professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford). Both refused to validate the Common Core and now speak out against it.
one to note danger signs. Dr. James Milgram, the only mathematician on the Common Core Validation Committee, refused to sign off on the math standards. He said that by the end of seventh grade Core Standards are roughly two years behind those of the high-achieving countries, like Finland. [1] P