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Well, that’ll be a pretty neat trick. For states that sign on the CCSSI’s Common Core standards in hopes of getting RtT points for subscribing to common standards, the math standards may actually prevent students from getting in to college. The “college readiness” math standards which were released in September by CCSSI do not contain a majority of topics that are in algebra 2. Many 4 year universities in the US requires students to have 3 years of math, two of which are algebra 1 and 2, and the other geometry. The geometry standards are also fairly weak.
See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/21/ED951B7LLP.DTL .
This is a trend in the right direction. Let’s ratchet it up by holding colleges and universities accountable too — perhaps with exit examinations like those administered by their European peers.