How Common Core could affect every state — even those that reject it
Not all states approved the Common Core State Standards, and some of those that did are now reconsidering whether to implement them. But it turns out that the standards could wind up affecting students in every state — even if their legislatures reject the initiative.How?
Students in every state take the high-stakes college admissions exams, the SAT and the ACT, as well as the newly designed GED, the high school equivalency test used as an alternative way to get a high school diploma. And all of those exams are going to be aligned to the Common Core standards, at least that is what their respective owners say.
David Coleman, one of the co-authors of the Common Core English Language Arts Standards and now the head of the College Board, which owns the SAT, has said that theexam will be Core-aligned, though when is not known. ACT, the organization that owns the ACT test, is an “active partner” with the Core initiative and says that the exam is
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