Common Core standards driving wedge in education circles

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Common Core standards driving wedge in education circles

USA Today

April 28, 2012

A high-profile effort by a pair of national education groups to strengthen, simplify and focus the building blocks of elementary and secondary education is finally making its way into schools. But two years ahead of its planned implementation, critics on both the right and left are seizing upon it. A few educators say the new standards, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, are untested, and one Republican governor wants to block the measure, saying it's a federal intrusion into local decisions. How did something so simple become so fraught?

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