If you haven't been napping for the last couple of years, you're well aware that lots of people are nervous about putting the common standards into practice in schools, and how they'll be reflected in test-score performance.

There are a couple of levels to the testing part of the question, of course. One is how will students fare on their own states' tests, which might—or might not—have been tweaked to reflect the common core? Another is how will students do a little further down the road—in 2014-15—on the common assessments being designed by two groups of states for the new standards?

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