By John Mooney
Legislators, education groups find common ground in talk of delaying at least some parts of Common Core
As New Jersey gets ready to implement new school standards and testing, some state legislators and education advocates are saying “Not so fast!”
The state Assembly’s education committee yesterday held a hearing on the new Common Core State Standards and the related testing – and heard repeated concerns expressed by representatives of school organizations, education advocates and others about the pace of the changes being pressed on schools by the state.
The new standards-led testing, adopted here and in nearly 20 other states, will start in New Jersey in 2015.
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