Classrooms of the future - planning begins

In The Baltimore Sun's Inside Ed column Liz Bowie reports on Who is deciding what will be taught in classrooms of the future?

From the Inside Ed column:

We've recently found out who will be writing and reviewing the new national or "common core" standards for math and language arts. For those of you who would like to know who is likely to be the group deciding what is important to be taught in classrooms, here's the list.

This year, Maryland and 45 other states decided to jointly develop a common group of standards...

...For a good story on the subject, go to Education Week.