Now, their help and training is needed more than ever as teachers make the radical shifts in instruction set by the Common Core State Standards, the new academic guidelines for what students should know at each grade level in math and English Language Arts. (edsource.org)
The percentage of teachers who are enthusiastic about Common Core — a set of academic guidelines in math and English that more than 40 states have adopted — is down from 73 percent last year to 68 this year, according to a poll of 1,600 teachers across the country. (hechingerreport.org)
The tough new academic guidelines would match the academic expectations for students held by higher - performing rivals like Singapore and South Korea. (hechingerreport.org)