Common Core

<p>The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was an American, multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what <a href="/facts/K%25E2%2580%259312/FKtI5sC0">K–12</a> students throughout the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> should know in <a href="/facts/Language_arts/pz5NJy0c">English language arts</a> and <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematics</a> at the conclusion of each <a href="/facts/Educational_stage/RakabbtK">school grade</a>. The initiative was sponsored by the <a href="/facts/National_Governors_Association/FXnTgFND">National Governors Association</a> and the <a href="/facts/Council_of_Chief_State_School_Officers/PVYE25bN">Council of Chief State School Officers</a>.
</p><p>The initiative also sought to provide states and schools with articulated expectations around the skills students graduating from high school needed in order to be prepared to enter credit-bearing courses at two- or four-year college programs or to enter the <a href="/facts/Workforce/rg2g6n5W">workforce</a>.
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Common Core