Common Core

Common Core Standards is a great idea, but as with everything in education, we as educators need to be given time to change our methods and training to facilitate these changes.  Knowing that most all students everywhere are to be focusing upon the same topics throughout the school year sounds like a comforting thought.  As often as we have students moving in and out of our schools, the idea behind common core is that students just won't be behind no matter where they move to or from.  This is awesome, but I don't know that I believe it will be reality.  Standards already exist, and in many schools, classrooms of the same grade level and content area don't even cover the same materials (let alone at the same time), so how is this idea to work across the nation?  I'm just skeptical, even though I believe it is a great idea. Here is a basic video, if you are interested in some information about common core standards.

(ISTE NETS.T standard 5c)