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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana on Monday became the first state to formally withdraw from the Common Core education standards in a move that did little to appease critics of the national program, who contend the state is simply stripping the "Common Core" label while largely keeping the benchmarks.

http://news.yahoo.com/indiana-withdrawing-common-core-standards-184000011--politics.html[/quote]

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[quote]The draft for those standards, put out for review last month, has already drawn skepticism from Common Core critics, including an analyst hired by Pence to assess the new program. That analyst, retired University of Arkansas professor Sandra Stotsky, says the proposal is just too similar to Common Core.

Stotsky released [b]an internal Indiana Department of Education report[/b] that found that more than 70 percent of the standards for sixth through 12th grade are [b]directly from Common Core[/b], and about[b] 20 percent are edited versions of the national standards[/b]. About 34 percent of English standards for kindergarten through fifth grade were taken straight from the national standards, and an additional 13 percent were edited.
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So for grades 6-12, Indiana liked 90% of the Common Core Standards.  Interesting.[/quote]

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