Common Core State Standards
Perma-Bound strives to provide support to our customers in their efforts to align their collections and curriculum material with applicable educational standards. Perma-Bound is excited by the recent, wide-spread adoption of the Common Core Standards for mathematics and language arts released through the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
As part of our continuing efforts to assist our curriculum customers in easily matching our products with the most current standards, we are working to add correlations between our materials and the Common Core Standards through the "State Standards" webpage as well as the "State Standards" tab of each item's title detail page. We have completed correlations for many of the Common Core standards. Click here to view them now, or continue reading to learn more about the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative was, and remains, a state-led effort, rather than a federal project. Forty-eight states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands participated in the development efforts.
Adoption has been swift. According to the NGA Center and CCSO adoption means:
- "[A] State adopts 100% of the common core K-12 standards in ELA and mathematics (word for word), with option of adding up to an additional 15% of standards on top of the core."
- "A state will have adopted when the standards authorizing body within the state has taken formal action to adopt and implement the common core."
This gives each state the ability to enhance the standards, while ensuring that students can easily transfer from a school in one common core state to a school in another common core state without missing key concepts because of variances in the grade level where they are expected to be learned. As of July 22, 2010 twenty-seven (27) states have adopted them, with only three states indicating no current plans to adopt them.
For more information on the Common Core State Standards, check out the links below:
- The Standards, full-text and appendices from the CCSSI
- Frequently Asked Questions, CCSSI's frequently asked questions about the Common Cores Standards
- States that have adopted the standards
- Voices of Support for the Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards Initiative was led by the National Governor's Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers, who hold the copyright thereto. The information provided on this and subsequent pages about the Common Core Standards are used under license from the NGA Center and CCSSO with all rights reserved.