Education Minister Simon Birmingham said universities and education experts in partnership with the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) would outline how they would assess teaching
students against new standards the government was implementing.
The company's team provides advice and guidance on developing food safety management systems, conducting a gap
analysis against a new standard, developing food labels, providing an internal audit, as well as other technical advice.
Some teachers, like Palm Beach middle school math teacher Vince Rogers, are
against the new standards stating that they are removed from reality as they consist of «teaching sixth grade math skills like box and whisker plots and interquartile range... The reality is that most people will never use that in their real life.»
While Tea Partyers are pushing
hard against the new standards, seeing in them a federal takeover of schools, mainstream support for the Common Core is bipartisan.
Pennsylvania — In Pennsylvania,
protests against the new standards prompted the state to replace the Common Core with a hybrid that blends the national guidelines with the state's previous ones.
But now, as the presidential primary season approaches, almost every governor aspiring to the GOP nomination has changed sides and come out
against the new standards.