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Common Core Standards Are a 'Heavy Lift' for Districts, Educators

U.S. News & World Report

Implementing the Common Core State Standards will be challenging--but not impossible--according to experts speaking in New York this week at the Education Nation summit, part of an NBC News initiative.

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