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Enabling Common Core State Standards Initiative Success

State and local administrators and teachers recognize that the pending disparities between the common core state standards and existing state content standards, the formal and taught curriculum, and assessments in the day-to-day classroom activities are significant and serious... more

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Solving Education’s Systemic Problems

No state has assured the alignment of its classroom instruction and teaching materials to their content standards and assessments. The lack of a truly aligned state model has consistently limited state, school district and teacher efforts to achieve student learning... more

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