Video: Learn about Common Core, other educational initiatives discussed at Annual Meeting in Park City
The Common Core is a set of educational standards for students from kindergarten through high school. The standards focus on critical thinking and analysis, instead of the traditional memorization and formulas, with a goal of ensuring that students largely learn the same things in public schools across the country.
Its supporters, including the Obama administration, are excited to see as it begins to debut in states across the country. But in the early going, at least, the Common Core standards face "growing opposition from both the right and the left," according to a story in The New York Times. Read the story.
If you attended the Education Roundtable at our recent Annual Meeting in Park City, Utah, you had a chance to hear former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer -- who also served as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District -- discuss why he supports Common Core.
If you couldn't attend, you can still hear what Romer, now a Special Advisor to The College Board, had to say by watching a video of the session. In addition to Western Governors such as Colorado's John Hickenlooper, Nevada's Brian Sandoval, Idaho's Butch Otter, Utah's Gary Herbert and Montana's Steve Bullock, panelists included Bob Mendenhall of Western Governors' University and Daniel Greenstein of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.