Do Governors’ ‘Common Core Standards’ Go Far Enough?

Bill Densmore has been studying how the newly revised Common Core Standards released by the National Governors Association incorporate digital and media literacy concepts. His post is published in full on The Media Giraffe Project blog and is linked below.

by Bill Densmore, Media Giraffe Project, June 8, 2010

“Media literacy” concepts are generally part of a major effort to push adoption of voluntary “Common Core State Standards” for English and literacy in history, social, studies, science and technical subjects, an initial line-by-line comparison of drafts shows. But do the standards go far enough?

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