Panel Releases Proposal To Set U.s. Standards For Education

By SAM DILLON, New York Times
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 7:39am

The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s motley current checkerboard of locally written standards.

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