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Education Standards Spur States to Create and Share Web-Based Curriculum and Portals

45 states and four territories have developed a set of uniform standards for math and English, called the Common Core Standards for Education. Surprisingly they were not mandated top down or pushed by the U.S. Department of Education. In fact, some educators cite the "bottom-up" development as a key to broad acceptance. These Common Core Standards were developed cooperatively by the states and localities. And since they are uniform across most states, curriculum materials can be aligned with those standards and then traded, shared and improved by teachers, districts and states regardless of location.

Michigan was one of the first states to recognize the Common Core as an opportunity. "We had been working on our M.O.R.E. [Michigan Online Resources for Educators] http://more.mel.org/ portal since 2007-2008," said Michigan eLibrary and Outreach Coordinator Deb Biggs Thomas. "These were pre-CommonCore days, and we were just working on our content expectations, our Michigan standards, providing resources that were aligned to those standards for K-12 teachers, that they could use in their classrooms."

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/education/Education-Standards-Spur-States-to-Create-and-Share-Web-Based-Curriculum-and-Portals.html

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