Making the common core standards work: using professional development to build world-class schools

Introduction: Why American schools must move toward common core state standards

Common core state standards: what are they?

The school leader's role in making the common core state standards work

Designing local curriculum to absorb the common core state standards in English

Designing local curriculum to absorb the common core state standards in mathematics

Challenges to the implementation of rigorous common core state standards

How to assess mastery of the common core curriculum state standards

The leadership challenge: creating common understandings of the common core state standards

Dialogue: providing opportunity so facts influence opinions

Multicultural issues that teachers and school leaders must face beyond the common core state standards

An effective intervention in schools that improves instruction and learning

Public policy: helpful and harmful.