Core Standards

The Common Core Standards draft was just released yesterday (for math and language arts.) Given that we are apparently moving toward a national curriculum and that these standards will probably shape our curricula for the next 5-7 years, we probably want to look at them and give feedback. You only can give feedback until October 21, 2009.
Go to this link to provide feedback:
http://www.corestandards.org/
From what I’ve heard, states will only have about 15 percent leeway to deviate from these Core Standards.

For some background, here is the NCTE page that discusses the new Core standards, including a letter from Kylene Beers:
http://www.ncte.org/standards/commoncore