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Is Common Core College Prep?

The Common Core education standards have generated a lot of debate, and controversy.  

But that political noise can sometimes cloud the goal of the standards: to better prepare students for careers, and college.  

To wrap up the Southern Education Desk series on Common Core, from New Orleans, Nina Feldman examines whether the standards are meeting that goal.