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Md. among states moving quickly toward adopting common academic standards
states by the end of the year [to next week that would allow the Virginia is part of the project, our school divisions, our teachers accountability targets.
by Nick Anderson adopt the proposal], based on state to adopt the standards but state officials have been cau- and our students. We’ve made all To address that issue, and en-
what they’ve said to us,” said when they are finalized in the tious about changing standards. of this progress in the last 15 able academic performance to be
Maryland and several other Brenda Welburn, executive direc- spring. Asked whether Virginia would years under the SOL program. It’s judged consistently across the
states are pushing rapidly toward tor of the National Association of “What is different about math- consider approving the proposed not something we’re just going to country, the governors and
adoption of new academic stan- State Boards of Education. ematics in Maine from Califor- standards, state Education De- walk away from.” school chiefs are seeking com-
dards proposed Wednesday for Kentucky last month became nia?” Gendron said. “I don’t be- partment spokesman Charles Under the 2002 No Child Left mon standards that would have
English and math, adding mo- the first to adopt the proposal, lieve there is a difference. You Pyle said the Board of Education Behind law, states are free to set all students ready for college or
mentum to the campaign to es- acting on a late-stage draft before will see far more states adopt the has not discussed doing so. standards and testing systems to career after high school. Presi-
tablish common expectations for the public release. standards than not.” “Virginia has a successful stan- rate schools. As a result, bench- dent Obama has encouraged the
public school students across the In Maine, the legislature holds Alaska and Texas are the only dards-based reform program — marks vary widely in rigor and initiative, but his administration
country. power of approval. Maine Com- two states that declined to join the Standards of Learning,” Pyle quality. Experts say many states played no role in drafting the
The District also is on track to missioner of Education Susan A. the common standards project said. “Abandoning those stan- eased academic requirements to blueprint.
adopt the common standards Gendron said she expects a vote when it began last year. dards would be very disruptive to enable schools to meet the law’s
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drafted by experts in a project led
by the National Governors Asso-
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join the apparent surge toward
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