‘Kindergarten Ready’ Needs to Be the New ‘College and Career Ready’

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‘Kindergarten Ready’ Needs to Be the New ‘College and Career Ready’

We stand on the verge of a revolution in American education. For the first time, a majority of states have adopted common-core standards for K-12 students in English language arts and mathematics—a powerful acknowledgment that collaboration is vital to the success of our students...The performance gap between our most and least proficient students is among the highest of all the developed countries, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education, and the United States continues to lag behind other developed countries in the critical subjects of math, science, and reading.