TAKING NOTE
NOVEMBER 2013
global marketplace of tomorrow.”viii
The first part of the work was to develop the college
and career readiness standards. Groups with
expertise in this area were enlisted to help lead the
process, including ACT, the College Board, and
Achieve. These three groups brought together work
teams that included leading education scholars from
across the U.S. The work groups developed the
specific standards for the end of high school that
would indicate college and career readiness (defined
as the ability to succeed in entry-level postsecondary
classes without remediation). These end-of-school
standards then guided the development of gradelevel standards for kindergarten through 11th gradeix.
For this part of the work, CCSSO and NGA brought
together two work teams that included people with
“expertise in assessment, curriculum design, cognitive
development, child development, and Englishlanguage acquisition.” There were 50 members on
the Common Core English Language Arts Work
Team, with a separate 12-member group providing
feedback on the standards. Additionally, a team of
51 individuals worked to develop the math Common
Core Standards, with another group of 22 individuals
providing
feedback,
including two
To read the full standards:
representatives
Common Core
from Tennessee.x
State Standards for
Mathematics
Common Core State
The final version
Standards for English
of the Common
Language Arts &
Core State
Literacy in History/
Social Studies, Science,
Standards was
and Technical Subjects
released in June
2010 along with
the Validation
Committee’s report stating that the standard ̃