Sean C. Morgan
Common Core standards are not really anything new, Director of Student Achievement and curriculum director Cathy Hurowitz told attendees at a recent community forum.
Oregon has had standards since 1995, she said. Common Core just increases the standards to a “world-class” level, she said.
Hurowitz said she wanted to dispel the abounding myths about what Common Core is and its relationship to the Smarter Balanced assessment test that students will begin taking…