Common Academic Standards Get Influential Push
The push for common state standards in reading and math got a high-profile boost today as organizations representing governors and state education chiefs formally put their weight behind the goal of aligning academic expectations in those subjects across states and benchmarking the standards against those of other countries.
A
new report
from the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the school reform group Achieve Inc. also went a step further and urged states to push for upgrading the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, to make it compatible with international assessments. That would let states see how their students stack up against their peers in other countries.
The governors, education chiefs, and Achieve will be joined in what they’re calling the “Common State Standards Initiative” by the Washington-based Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, and the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership...
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