{"id":19782,"date":"2013-08-06T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19782"},"modified":"2013-08-06T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:13:54","slug":"indiana-panel-begins-review-of-common-core-education-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/06\/indiana-panel-begins-review-of-common-core-education-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Panel Begins Review Of Common Core Education Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyle Stokes \/ StateImpact Indiana<\/p>

House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, R-Indianapolis, right, and Senate Education Committee Chair Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn. Behning is a Common Core supporter. Kruse has voted for and helped sponsor legislation opposing the Common Core.<\/p><\/div>\n

Indiana lawmakers held the first of a series of hearings on the future of Common Core State Standards yesterday.<\/p>\n

The first hearing focused on the quality of the standards, while subsequent meetings will look at assessment and cost.<\/p>\n

The Indiana hearings are important because the Hoosier State has become\u00a0something of a proxy for Common Core opponents across the country<\/a>. Indiana lawmakers approved a bill pausing implementation of the standards and accompanying testing. Florida advocates think they can introduce a similar bill for the next legislative session.<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of those who spoke at the hearing are leading national voices both in favor and opposing the standards. Those not attending the hearing provided a running commentary on Twitter all afternoon.<\/p>\n

Our colleagues at StateImpact Indiana have a recap<\/a>:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jason Zimba helped write the Common Core math standards. He says the new math standards<\/a> are a step in the right direction if Indiana wants to prepare more students for college and career.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, the study of fractions in American schools has been criticized as the study of round food,\u201d says Zimba. \u201cBut in the previous Indiana K-5 standards, the word \u2018pizza\u2019 occurs more times in the study of fractions than the word \u2018number line\u2019 does.\u201d<\/p>\n

But opponents of the nationally-crafted standards told lawmakers the Common Core is less rigorous than the standards Indiana had before.
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\u201cIndiana would be better off sticking with its current standards,\u201d says Bill Evers, a researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. \u201cThat does mean there are not areas of improvement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Indiana legislative panel must make a recommendation about standards to the state board of education by Nov. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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