No system of education, "common core" or whatever it's called, can be a success without these ingredients:

Well-trained and dedicated teachers.
Freedom to teach and learn without imposed religious and social constraints.
Ability to vary content to meet the needs of a non-homogeneous group of students. Otherwise it's sink or swim.
Sufficient money to provide the tools, books, equipment and physical plants needed.

As pick and shovel and "shop girl" employment succumbs to automation and internet shopping, those unprepared for the future economy will be unemployed and on relief, a drain on society as a whole.