New York Conducting Common Core Review.

The Rochester (NY) Democrat & Chronicle (9/21) reports that New York education officials are undertaking two “high-profile reviews” of the Common Core Standards, which could lead to a reduction in testing time and possibly a name change. The piece reports that the reviews are being conducted by the governor’s office and by the state Department of Education, and “mark the best chance for substantive tweaks to the more-stringent standards since the state adopted them five years ago.”