Monday, July 19, 2010

States Adopt Universal Set Of Standards

By Ryan Blackburn
The Athens Banner-Herald
July 19, 2010

When Georgia set out to adopt new curriculum goals for students in 180 school systems, state leaders and educators wanted to make sure they would match what students were getting in classrooms across the nation.

After a year of studying the new goals, Georgia last week joined 19 other states in adopting what's called the Common Core State Standards as part of an initiative to ensure states maintain rigorous and consistent classroom standards for what every student should know in math and English.

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