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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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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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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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The problem(s) with the Common Core standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://voices.washingtonpost.com (Views: 10, Clicks: 2) View Story

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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Re: Plan offers English, math guides for national education standards

The public may comment until April 2, and developers hope to publish goals for K-12 math and English in May.

Common Core State Standards -- http://www.corestandards.org/

Re: Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

After educators, business executives and others criticized the corrosive impact of a race to the bottom, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers set the common-standards initiative in motion last year. They convened panels of English and math experts from the College Board and A.C.T., and from Achieve Inc., a group with years of experience working to upgrade graduation standards.

Re: The problem(s) with the Common Core standards

It makes me wonder too!

Re: Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards

Eighth-graders would be expected to use linear equations to solve for an unknown and explain a proof of the Pythagorean theorem on properties of a right triangle -- cornerstones of algebra and geometry.

Re: Wide Web of diversions gets laptops evicted from lecture halls

Professors have banned laptops from their classrooms at George Washington University, American University, the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia, among many others. Last month, a physics professor at the University of Oklahoma poured liquid nitrogen onto a laptop and then shattered it on the floor, a warning to the digitally distracted. A student -- of course -- managed to capture the staged theatrics on video and drew a million hits on YouTube.

Professor Makes Example of Laptop with Liquid Nitrogen -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ya1dUA5-GM

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