Yesterday I blogged about a journal article in Educational Researcher that found that the Common Core Standards were not aligned well with international standards. Today, I present a dissenting opinion.
ACT has released a research report, titled “Affirming the Goal: Is College and Career Readiness an Internationally Competitive Standard?” This study also looks at the international competitiveness of the Common Core State Standards to determine how these standards measure up. ACT determines that the definition of college and career readiness exemplified by the Common Core Standards is, in fact, internationally competitive.
The report answers three key questions:
What does college and career readiness really mean?
How do we know if our college and career readiness standards are internationally competitive?
How would the U.S. fare if college and career readiness standards were fully adopted and successfully implemented?
For more information and to read the full report, see http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/reports/affirmingthegoal.html
