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Common Core Standards

Common Core Standards

The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) is an effort designed to improve educational outcomes for students by developing a set of common, voluntary, internationally-benchmarked academic standards in mathematics and English language arts. For more details, check out the CCSSI overview. (This overview is also available in Spanish.) North Carolina is one of the states participating in CCSSI.

National PTA^® partnered with experts on the Common Core State Standards to create grade by grade guides that reflect the standards adopted by more than 40 states. Individual guides were created for grades K-8 and two were created for grades 9-12 (one for English language arts/literacy and one for mathematics). Eleven guides were created in all. Read the Parents' Guide to Student Success.

More information about Common Core State Standards can be found at these websites:

Common Core State Standards Initiative
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National PTA
Council of Chief State School Officers
National Governors Association
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