Governors’ Group Seeks National Education Standards – The Common Core State Standards

A group representing governors and state school chiefs laid out a detailed blueprint Wednesday of the skills students should learn at each grade level, reinvigorating the battle over what some see as an attempt to usurp local control of schools.

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have signed on to the concept of common standards but haven’t promised to adopt them. If they do, it could trigger wide-scale changes to state tests, textbooks and teacher-education programs nationwide.

The Common Core State Standards http://www.corestandards.org/ detail the math and language-arts knowledge children should master to prepare them for college and the work force.

By STEPHANIE BANCHERO

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