Is trouble brewing over the new national math standards?

– Could Kentucky’s new math standards and new testing program be held up?

A West-Coast blogger reports that a meeting of mathematicians this past week got into somewhat icy discussions concerning the pending national math standards, commonly called the “Common Core Standards,” which are being created by the National Governor’s Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

These standards will be used as the major input to reform Kentucky’s math standards, and our program to finish our state standards, and ultimately create the new assessments to support them, could be in serious trouble if those national standards are either delayed or arrive in a highly controversial form.