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August 3, 2010

How a national standard will affect the education industry

Kai Ryssdal:

Kai Ryssdal: State education officials around the country are having a busy day. Today's a key deadline in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top. That's the $4 billion pot of federal money that states can get -- get, if they agree to certain policy changes. One of those changes -- and this is today's deadline -- is to sign on to a national set of common curriculum standards. That could bring the education marketplace from widely fractured and segmented with dozens of different standardsinto something resembling coherent.

Christopher Swanson is the vice president for research and development at Education Week. Welcome to the program.

Christopher Swanson: Glad to be here.

Ryssdal: It's a mistake to talk about a national education market, I suppose, but this drive to get some uniform core curriculum standards does kind of change the market dynamic for things like testing and textbooks, doesn't it?

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 3, 2010 1:32 AM
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