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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Stateline - State Implementation of Common Core Standards Has Some Nervous

Stateline - State Implementation of Common Core Standards Has Some Nervous:


States Nervous About New Common Core School Standards

 
In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and middle-school students who rated “proficient” or better on statewide math and reading tests declined by about a third. Kentucky high schoolers also experienced a double-digit percentage point decline in both subjects.
Those results may sound dismal, but they were better than state education officials had expected. Kentucky is the first state to tie its tests to the new national Common Core standards in English and math, and state officials had projected that the new, tougher standards could yield declines of as much as 50 percent.
Kentucky’s experience is likely to be repeated in dozens of other states. Forty-five states have signed on for the