Obama wants students prepared for college, careers AP: In a release Sunday night, the administration took a swipe at the Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act, declaring that "between 2005 and 2007, various states have lowered their standards in reading and math."
Obama wants education benchmarks to meet higher standardWashington Post: White House and Education Department officials said a state could show that its benchmarks meet the expected level two ways: by adopting standards developed through a consortium of states or by certifying, in a process to be developed with universities, that their existing standards are high enough.
Obama to Propose New Reading and Math Standards NYT: How successful or quickly the governors, legislatures, state boards of education and other authorities in other states will be in agreeing on adoption of the new standards is not clear.