This new report, produced by the EPE Research Center in partnership with Education First, a national education policy and strategic consulting firm, describes states’ progress toward creating plans for implementing the Common Core State Standards. Preparing for Change: A National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning provides insight into the steps states are taking to implement common standards and reports results from a 50-state survey examining transition planning. The survey results offer specific details on the status of state plans for changes in teacher professional development, curriculum and instructional materials, and teacher-evaluation systems. The results find that a handful of states are particularly far along in their plans to implement the CCSS, but that most states still have a long way to go in their planning efforts.