Wednesday, March 10, 2010

U.S. lays out set of common school standards

Teacher Lori Peck helps first grader Timia Harris at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif. on Feb. 12. The nation's governors and school chiefs will propose a blueprint for what children should learn, which aims to replace a hodgepodge of state benchmarks with common standards. New educational standards say 4th graders should know the difference between poetry and prose, 8th graders must be able to prove Pythagoras�" theorem.




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