Revised Draft of 'Common Core' Standards Unveiled

A revamped draft of proposed common academic standards for states offers more detailed expectations than an earlier version, though the document also says that some decisions about specific curricula and lessons should be left to individual states and schools.

The document, released for public comment today, is supposed to provide guidelines for determining “college and career readiness” in language arts and math for students across the country.

Forty-eight states have agreed to take part in the effort known as Common Core, whose goal is to establish more uniform expectations for the nation’s students, in contrast to the wide variations in academic standards that exist...