Love it or Hate it, Common Core Standards is a new set of academic expectations that is being enacted and adopted by State legislature across the country.
It is a controversial topic in education where you will find supporters who whole heartedly adopt the idea while others are vehemently against it.
Here is a graph showing the States that have adopted the idea of Common Core.
To learn more about Common Core Standards, click on the link below where this graph was originally posted:
http://www.ascd.org/common-core-state-standards/common-core-state-standards-adoption-map.aspx
And:
http://www.corestandards.org/