SKrashen: A common core for community colleges?

SKrashen: A common core for community colleges?:

Sent to the New York Times, Jan 11, 2015

The President's plan to fund community colleges sounds great: It would reduce the high costs of college and also provide job preparation in areas where there are shortages, such as carpentry, electrical work, construction, and plumbing, specialties that do not require a four-year degree.  ("Obama, in Tennessee, Begins Selling His Community College Tuition Plan," January 9).

Our concern is the requirement that "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes." Does this mean an expansion of the common core,  bringing expensive and untested standards and nonstop testing to the college level? 

Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus
University of Southern California

Kris Nielsen
Author, Children of the Core (2013)

Source for "Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/08/president-proposes-make-community-college-free-responsible-students-2-years


Original article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/10/us/obama-announces-plan-to-pay-for-community-college.html