Nearly every state in the U.S. is adopting some form of the standards, known as the Common Core State Standards, but New York is one of the first states testing students on the changed content.
Private-housing prices in the city-state's core central region rose 0.6% in the second quarter, compared with a 0.6% fall in the January-April period.
Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that Doma was an attempt by Congress to "regulate" marriage, which under the Constitution is a core state police power.
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.
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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.
The Common Core State Standards seek to align diverse state curricula in K-12 education in the US. Today each state defines their own standards, curricula and textbooks in an independent manner.
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Just one month later at Stuyvesant high school, students used cell phones to share test questions and answers on the 2012 Regents exams, a test used by New York State to evaluate core subjects.
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Mr. Johnson said he thought there were "serious problems" with the test, in large part because teachers are just beginning to learn the approach required under the new benchmarks, known nationally as the Common Core State Standards.
While the new GED will incorporate tougher material by January 2014, the other two firms will begin slowly phasing in the new standards then, addressing worries from state officials that students won't have time to become familiar with harder questions designed to conform with the new academic benchmarks, the Common Core State Standards.
He was thanking Vint Cerf for making state-full edges a core design principle of the original web.
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State enterprises, considered the core of the economy, would bitterly fight any substantial increase in their cost of capital.
None of this suggests, however, that the American urban core is in a state of permanent decline.
Other key features include 3rd Generation Intel Core processors, solid state drives and up to 12 hours of battery life with second optional battery.
Inside, it has pretty much the exact specs you'd expect to find on any new Ultrabook: up to 256GB of solid-state storage and your choice of Core i3, i5 and i7 CPUs.
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This great circular game of mutual exploitation Interest Group Liberalism is the central dynamo at the core of the modern welfare state.
So the court wants to ensure that Germany does not surrender to the EU any of the core powers of a democratic state.
The Kremlin's other demands include access to the core of America's state-of-the-art missile defense systems - hit-to-kill technology that has a host of applications beyond anti-missile missions.
No state has completely pulled out of Common Core, but Utah and Alabama have backed out of the consortium of states working to create computer-based Common Core exams.
In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year.
The current build of the software, though, is another matter entirely -- it's in a pretty raw alpha state right now and hugh swaths of core functionality appear to be missing.
The state repeated warnings about the country's core of engineers for over a year.
Other Xi3 computers are based around dual core Intel chips and use solid state storage.
Even more worryingly, Argentina's current policies do not grapple with its core problems a bankrupt state and an insolvent financial system.
But Mr Lapid does not believe that Israel should have to divide Jerusalem with the Palestinians in a future peace deal - one of the core elements of the two-state solution that the wider world continues to believe in.
It's a complex picture, but at its core is the high-tax welfare state run amok.
Core to their PHM approach is they state that primary care should be an outbound activity, not an inbound activity.
"The core holding of Roe is that a state cannot place an obstacle in the way of a woman who wants to abort before viability, " DiPippa said.
As for companies linked to Suharto's billionaire buddy Liem Sioe Liong, investors seem to have switched from Indocement as a core holding to Semen Gresik, a state-controlled listed cement player.
The NCAA improperly relied on that report and never identified a rules infraction "based on Sandusky's crimes, much less an infraction by Penn State that implicated the NCAA's jurisdiction and core mission of ensuring competitive balance, " the Paterno family report said.
By looking after the state, Mr Darling and his boss are looking after their core vote.
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