Recommendations for National K-12 Education Standards Target College Readiness
by Joyce Jones , June 3, 2010
The United States is one of only a few developed countries that have not adopted national standards for its public schools. That could soon change. On Wednesday, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers released its final recommendations for what students in grades K-12 should master each year in English language arts and mathematics.
The proposal, unveiled at special ceremony held at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwannee, Georgia, includes some of the more than 10,000 recommendations that the Common Core State Standards Initiative received after it released a draft in March. Standards are detailed in two documents, Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy