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What High School Parents Should Know About Common Core - High School Notes (usnews.com)

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What High School Parents Should Know About Common Core

December 10, 2012 RSS Feed Print
The Common Core standards require high school students to collaborate to solve problems.
The Common Core standards require high school students to collaborate to solve problems.
When the Common Core State Standards take full effect in 2014, they will impact more than 42 million K-12 students. While some schools and districts are holding information sessions to educate parents on the new standards, most still know very little about what the Common Core entails.
Only 7 percent of adults say they know "a lot" about the standards, and 60 percent say they know "nothing" about the standards, according to a July report by Achieve, an education nonprofit. The following cheat sheet can help parents of high