The Associated Press reports that Missouri is getting rid of the controversial Common Core educational standards and replacing them with alternative standards.
Common Core covers only math and English, while the new Missouri standards will also cover social studies and science. “Major changes include more emphasis on research in language arts and reorganizing math benchmarks for kindergarten through second grade,” the AP says. Elementary students will be expected to learn cursive writing.
Schools will have to design their own curricula to help students meet the standards.