Just a passing note about a news story I saw today:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10806183
If the majority of the US is standardizing on a single curriculum (or, at least, a standard base curriculum), that makes a nice stable target for Wikibooks textbook authors to aim at when creating books for school-aged US children. It certainly beats the large and unruly mess of competing standards that made such targetting impossible for Wikibooks in the past.
--Andrew Whitworth
oddly the abcnews site does not link to the Common Core Standards website - www.corestandards.org
Here is a link to yesterday's press release:
http://www.corestandards.org/articles/8-national-governors-association-and-s...
-Josh
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.comwrote:
Just a passing note about a news story I saw today:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10806183
If the majority of the US is standardizing on a single curriculum (or, at least, a standard base curriculum), that makes a nice stable target for Wikibooks textbook authors to aim at when creating books for school-aged US children. It certainly beats the large and unruly mess of competing standards that made such targetting impossible for Wikibooks in the past.
--Andrew Whitworth
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