Re: Common Curriculums in the US

oddly the abcnews site does not link to the Common Core Standards website -
www.corestandards.org

Here is a link to yesterday's press release:

http://www.corestandards.org/articles/8-national-governors-association-and-state-education-chiefs-launch-common-state-academic-standards

-Josh

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]>wrote:

> Just a passing note about a news story I saw today:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10806183
>
> If the majority of the US is standardizing on a single curriculum (or,
> at least, a standard base curriculum), that makes a nice stable target
> for Wikibooks textbook authors to aim at when creating books for
> school-aged US children. It certainly beats the large and unruly mess
> of competing standards that made such targetting impossible for
> Wikibooks in the past.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
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