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How a national standard will affect the education industry
- 08-03-2010
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By Kai Ryssdal/American Public Radio
KAI RYSSDAL: State education officials around the country are having a busy day. Today's a key deadline in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top. That's the $4 billion pot of federal money that states can get -- get, if they agree to certain policy changes. One of those changes -- and this is today's deadline -- is to sign on to a national set of common curriculum standards. That could bring the education marketplace from widely fractured and segmented with dozens of different standardsinto something resembling coherent. Christopher Swanson is the vice president for research and development at Education Week. Welcome to the program. CHRISTOPHER SWANSON: Glad to be here. (more...)
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