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Education chief hopes stimulus will push standards
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is offering federal cash incentives to achieve one of his priorities: developing national standards for reading and math to replace a current hodgepodge of benchmarks in the states.
Duncan said Sunday that the efforts of 46 states to develop common, internationally measured standards for student achievement http://matr.net/article-34541.html would be bolstered by up to $350 million in federal funds to help them develop tests to assess those standards.
Duncan made the announcement Sunday in suburban Cary at a conference for education experts and 20 governors hosted by the National Governors Association and the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy.
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