The revision process for the draft K-12 common standards offers a glimpse into the difficulty of crafting skills-and-knowledge sets to everyone's satisfaction.

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The chat is a great way to get up to speed on the initiative.

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The common academic standards in math are still in the nonpublic draft stage, but that doesn't stop people from talking about them. They were the featured topic of a panel discussion at the annual joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in San ...

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"Quality Counts" is required reading; it explores the push for common academic standards.

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The Texas State Board of Education today is taking public testimony on new social studies standards being developed.

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Kentucky could be the first state to approve the common standards.

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The Education Department schedules a second round of public meetings to help shape its $350 million competition to design common assessments.

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National common standards would make expectations for all students to succeed academically more equitable, contends Bob Rothman, a senior fellow for the Alliance for Excellent Education, in a brief released today by that organization.

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High-performing Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Korea order math lessons so that math lessons reinforce, and build upon each other.

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Educators have not been shy about giving their opinions about drafts released through the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Many say standards are only one piece of the K-12 puzzle.

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