Funding the Common Core State Standards: What Have We Learned the Last Three Years?

This report analyzes the activities and successes of the Common Core Funders Working Group over their three-year timeline, 2012-2015. This Working Group hoped to create education systems change and "sought to leverage and organize the unique contributions of philanthropy— including resources, leadership, nimbleness and independence—to support students, schools, districts and states in successfully achieving the Common Core State Standards." Members of the Working Group reflected using these guiding questions: 

What has been learned about effective education philanthropy from supporting implementation of the Common Core? 

What could funders do differently to support the standards going forward, given the experience of the past few years?

What has the field learned (or re-learned) about the challenges and approaches to systems change in education?