Associated Press
COLUMBUS -- Education researchers say Ohio's students will be better able to compete with those in top performing nations due to the state's participation in a new national curriculum plan.
Ohio is to be among the first states to adopt the grade-by-grade Common Core curriculum for math and English being developed by 48 states. A proposal was released this week. They would replace the varied state-by-state standards currently in use.
Sandy Boyd of the nonprofit Achieve Inc. says the proposals for math are consistent with what's done in the highest-performing countries and different from what states do now.