Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks.
Their support has surprised many in education circles, given states’ long tradition of insisting on retaining local control over curriculum. The quick adoption of common standards for what students should learn in English and math each year from kindergarten through high school is attributable in part to the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition. States that adopt the standards by Aug. 2 win points in the competition for a share of the $3.4 billion to be awarded in September.
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Come on Arizona, lets get with the program dudes! It's race to the top, not a political partisan driven race to mediocrity. We have so much good raw material here, and if we really want a bright future for the state, it's going to be due to having a well educated, highly skilled young workforce.
Dear Arizona Legislature and Honorable Governor, lets have a race to the top, instead of spending so much energy racing and chasing after ghosts and fictional enemies of the state.
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