Key votes on common core this week
Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The Academic Content Standards Commission will be back at it today and tomorrow in Sacramento. If still on schedule by the end of Wednesday, the 21-person committee will have made the momentous recommendation of whether California should adopt the common-core standards that will form the basis of a de facto national curriculum in math and English language arts. The state commission will return for a final two days next week to decide how much, if at all, they should add and reorder the common-core package. Common core is an effort organized by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with encouragement from the Obama administration. (more...)