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Plan offers English, math guides for national education standards

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Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as proposed national education guidelines were released.

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Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts

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Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emphasize the role of Christianity in American history and include Republican political philosophies in textbooks.

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Plan can put district on path for improvement

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Oklahoman Editorial -- "One of the top recommendations out of last week’s MAPS for Kids progress report was the development of a strategic plan to guide the school district. It’s a good idea, although a strategy is only as good as its implementation and that’s where the district may face its greatest challenge."

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Bill would require four years of math for Oklahoma students

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Oklahoma high school students would be required to take four years of mathematics before graduating high school under a bill approved in the Oklahoma Senate.

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Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

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A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.

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Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment

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The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a process being led by governors and chief state school officers in 51 states, territories, and the District of Columbia.

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The problem(s) with the Common Core standards

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Valerie Strauss -- "The fact that few if any classroom teachers were involved in the drafting of the standards--(none were asked to help draft the No Child Left Behind law)--doesn’t necessarily make them inadequate, but it makes me wonder. The fact that much of the drafting process was done in secrecy doesn’t necessarily make them inadequate, but it makes me wonder."

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Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards

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The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across the country.

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Kansas City wants to close half its public schools

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Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many kids were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and another with recording studios. Now it's on the brink of bankruptcy and considering another bold move: closing nearly half its schools to stay afloat.

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Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

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Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity.

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Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

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Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.

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KIPP helps worst students, study says

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Jay Mathews -- "Among the many controversies surrounding the Knowledge Is Power Program, the nation's most successful charter school network, is the suggestion that KIPP scores look good because their weakest students drop out. A new and unusually careful survey has found that in the case of at least one KIPP school, that's not true."

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Schools struggle to pay for program

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While state officials have helped curb this year's deep education cuts with federal stimulus money and some state reserve funds, school districts are still working to fill at least one budget hole left — employee flex benefit allowance plan funding.

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In Harlem, Epicenter for Charter Schools, a Senator Wars Against Them

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Over the last decade, as charter schools have multiplied, Mr. Perkins has undergone a dramatic shift and emerged as their most outspoken critic in the Legislature, writing guest columns in newspapers and delivering impassioned speeches criticizing the “privatization” of public schools.

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