Get up to speed on the Common Core State Standards and make a plan with your child’s teacher to help them succeed.

Below you'll find simple, relevant information, materials to share with your friends, and real life examples of how lessons and assignments might look under the new standards.

The Hunt Institute describes the rationale for Common Core Standards and how the standards were developed.

This video by the Council of the Great City Schools explains how the Common Core will help students achieve at high levels and help them learn what they need to know to get to graduation and beyond.

Visit English and math classrooms that have already begun to adapt to the new Common Core standards. See what changes teachers are making in their practice to adapt to the new standards.