CNN (7/22, Holland) reports that "so far 26 states have signed on to the national Common Core Standards." Mike Petrilli, Vice President of the Fordham Institute, a think tank, said that the Common Core standards "have avoided the debate about the federal government pushing standards on the rest of the country" because they "are part of a state-led effort." On Wednesday, the Forham Institute "released results of its study comparing the standards-of-learning of all 50 states and the District of Columbia with the Common Core Standards that have been proposed for the whole country." California, DC, and Indiana "received the highest marks in English language arts with more stringent standards than the national recommendations," but "in mathematics, there were no states that had standards that were clearly better than the Common Core Standards." The Dallas Morning News "Education Front" blog (7/21) and the San Francisco Chronicle (7/21, Tucker) also covered the story.
Virginia BOE President Says Virginia Is "Wise" Not To Adopt Common Core. In a letter to the Editor of the Washington Post (7/21), Eleanor Saslaw, president of the Virginia Board of Education, wrote, "regarding Kristen Amundson's July 11 Local Opinions piece, 'National education standards: The right answer for Virginia,'" that "in taking Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and the Virginia Board of Education to task for not adopting the Common Core national education standards, Ms. Amundson ignored recent actions to strengthen Virginia's Standards of Learning (SOL)." Saslaw notes the merits of the system. "Given the uncertainties surrounding the Common Core," she concludes, "Virginia is wisely moving forward with an accountability program that has made the commonwealth's public schools among the highest-achieving in the nation."
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