Pennsylvania getting swept into national 'Common Core' education debate

Source: articles.mcall. Posted By: Bailey C...4006 days ago

In the last three years, the Bethlehem Area School District and other districts have spent lots of money rewriting curriculum and lessons to prepare students for tougher state-sanctioned academic standards and exams.

"It's got to be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands," said Bethlehem's Chief Academic Officer Jack Silva.

In January, the district's first batch of high schoolers took the algebra I, biology and literature Keystone exams that follow a 5-year-old universal set of standards....

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