Developments on Common Core State Standards Identifier and XML Representation

April 17, 2012

As 45 states, the District of Columbia, and two territories move from widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards to implementation, there is a need to appropriately identify and link assets using a shared system of identifiers and a common XML representation. There have been several prior efforts at this. The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), working closely with the standards authors, aim to put forward a viable approach for publishing identifiers and XML designation to represent the standards, consistent with their adopted format, as outlined below.

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