Thursday, March 11, 2010

PANEL RELEASES PROPOSAL TO SET U.S. STANDARDS FOR EDUCATION

By Sam Dillon/New York Times

03-10-2010  - Culminating a year’s work, a panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. Forty-eight states cooperated in producing the proposed standards, which amount to a new road map for American public education. If a majority of states were to adopt them over the next few months, which experts said was a growing possibility, the new standards would replace the nation’s motley current checkerboard of locally written standards, which vary greatly in content and sophistication. (more...)

AP/LA Times: Proposed standards not driven by consensus, but by evidence.

Texas and Alaska opt out. (more)

 

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