Education News – Kristin Decarr
“A new website is providing parents in Arizona with a new tool to use to help their elementary school children with their math and English homework. Created by Stand for Children Arizona, the site, Do Your Homework Arizona, was created in order to assist parents with understand the new College and Career Readiness standards in the state. The website focuses on math and English because those are the two new standards for the state…The more rigorous academic standards were adopted by the state in 2010 in order to better prepare students for future success. As public schools throughout the state align their teaching with these standards, parents are finding themselves confused by the new methods.”(more)