The central mission of Common Core is to design English and math standards from kindergarten through
twelfth grade such that a young person fully meeting those standards will actually be prepared to succeed in college without remediation, or to succeed in a job with good future prospects.
Experiences
such as this can also dovetail with the senior project now required for graduation in many states and districts, in which
twelfth -
grade students choose a topic for independent study with an outside mentor, then present a finished product for a juried assessment.