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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education

New York Times

March 11, 2010

The standards, posted on the panel's web site, lay out the panel's vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation. Forty-eight states cooperated in producing the proposed standards, which amount to a new road map for American public education.

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