The push-back to Common Core skeptics starts

4/23/14 11:10 AM EDT

State superintendents said today that the heated rhetoric and controversy around the Common Core State Standards doesn't  reflect what's actually happening in the classroom.
At a panel discussion hosted by the Council of Chief State School Officers, New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera said that when she visits classrooms, teachers love the Common Core. Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Lillian Lowery agreed.
"When I pick up some of the morning newspapers and I see that there's bedlam all around, that things are coming apart at the seems, I wonder what schools this is happening in," Lowery said.

Skandera said talk of delaying the standards only becomes apparent when accountability gets involved.