Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
The News tablets will come loaded with material from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a K-12 curriculum developed by a broad coalition of education experts and supported by most states.
Forty-five of the fifty states in the US are members of the CCSS initiative and a majority of states have adopted the standards for mathematics and English language arts that were released in 2010.