The development and adoption of new content standards in math, ELA, and science has placed increased importance on the process and construction of a student's learning. (edutopia.org)
Systemic reformers have tended to focus on creating new policy instruments such as content standards or curricular frameworks, assessments that are aligned with new content standards, and changes in both preservice and inservice teacher education (Cohen, 1995). (ciera.org)
Districts have known since 2010 that the common core was coming - but the state has been unable as a result of the fiscal crisis from giving schools the millions needed to buy updated instructional materials and train teachers in the new content standards. (k-12daily.org)