Aligning Standards and Curriculum Begets Questions

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms.

But as a recent meeting of leading educators and policymakers illustrates, that query generates far more questions than it does clear-cut answers.

At a two-day gathering in Washington last month, more than two dozen experts began to explore the issues they consider vital to creating good curriculum materials aligned to the common standards. The meeting was convened by the National Governors Association , which, along with the Council of Chief State School Officers , is leading the Common Core State Standards Initiative .