oddly the abcnews site does not link to the Common Core Standards website - www.corestandards.org
Here is a link to yesterday's press release: http://www.corestandards.org/articles/8-national-governors-association-and-state-education-chiefs-launch-common-state-academic-standards -Josh On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]>wrote: > Just a passing note about a news story I saw today: > > http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10806183 > > If the majority of the US is standardizing on a single curriculum (or, > at least, a standard base curriculum), that makes a nice stable target > for Wikibooks textbook authors to aim at when creating books for > school-aged US children. It certainly beats the large and unruly mess > of competing standards that made such targetting impossible for > Wikibooks in the past. > > --Andrew Whitworth > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l > -- "Every time the word 'achievement' or 'academics' is used to mean test scores we cheapen the meaning of both terms." --Deborah Meier _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
