All students should graduate from high school ready for college, careers, and citizenship.
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Thu, 07/31/2008 - 00:00 — kate
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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By 2008, the efforts by individual states to set college- and career-ready standards for high school graduates led to a remarkable degree of consistency in English and mathematics requirements. This “common core” – detailed in “Out of Many, One: Toward Rigorous Common Core Standards from the Ground Up” – is the byproduct of aligning standards to real-world demands.