A lot of discussion and debate have accompanied the design stage of the common standards, and more will follow as states move into the adoption and implementation stages. But as important as the standards are, many have long argued that the assessments designed to reflect those standards will be far more influential on education than will the standards themselves.
Bill Tucker makes this case in an article appearing in the magazine Education Next and in Education Sector’s blog, The Quick and the Ed. (Check an earlier blog post of ours , too, for more on the importance of the common assessments.)
Standards are but the first ripple in this big pond. Please track with us here as we watch it all unfold.