Forty-eight states have now joined a nationwide partnership to develop a common set of rigorous, career-ready standards in reading and math.

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On a positive note, the robot will only react to logic, math and common sense.

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Yet the results we require are really a matter of common sense: We expect third-graders to read and do math at third grade level and that is not asking too much.

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