Common Core Standards: Progress & Challenges

Momentum is clearly building as 60% of the country has signed onto K-12 common core standards in English and Math.  The Center on Education Policy recently published a study authored by Nancy Kober and Diane Stark Rentner titled, States' Progress and Challenges in Implementing Common Core Standards.  This report is based upon survey data from state education offices across the country and stated that, "State decisions to adopt common core standards have been positively influenced by federal encouragement, such as Race to the Top grants."


Currently 32 States have adopted the standards, yet total implementation is down the road.  The research has shown that states have cited the following necessary steps for full implementation of common core standards:

• Changes in professional development are required
• Major changes and revision of state wide assessments
• Realigning curriculum
• Teacher evaluation and certification

The research stated that many states expressed the need for more time to implement the common core standards and that full adoption and implementation was most likely to occur after 2013.

The entire research article can be found online here.