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Michael Cohen of Achieve talks about some of the big misconceptions behind the Common Core State Standards.

Standards are only a blueprint. What actually matters is what happens in the classroom. What kind of training do teachers receive? What curricula do states and districts adopt?

Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute talks about some of the important questions to ask about Common Core assessments

Jacqueline King of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium talks about how the assessment experience will change under Common Core

Tommy Bice, Alabama’s state schools superintendent, talks about developing assessments outside of the PARCC and Smarter Balanced consortia

Laura Slover of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers talks about the development of PARCC’s Common Core-aligned math and reading tests