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Published Online: July 17, 2012 Published in Print: July 18, 2012, as Seizing the Moment for Mathematics Commentary Seizing the Moment for Mathematics By William Schmidt Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org. Read more FREE content! Printer-Friendly Email Article Reprints Comments Like Liked </sp
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As part of our ongoing research, Richard Houang and I recently concluded a study of the math standards and their relation to existing state standards and the standards of other nations. Drawing from our work on the 1995 TIMSS, we developed a measure of the congruence of the common core to all 50 state standards in effect in 2008-09, as well as to an international benchmark. We also examined the relationship of each state's math standards to the common standards and how each state performed on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Although, we can't project the success of the common math standards with certainty, it would give us reason for optimism if states whose standards more closely resembled those of the common core performed better on NAEP.
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What did our research uncover? The common-core math standards closely mirror those of the world's highest-achieving nations.
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