The United States, "the Main Features Of The Common Core State Standards (english)" And The Reference,

ON June 2nd 2010,the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) have released a set of state-led education standards for English language and arts, the Common Core State Standards for English language and arts (CCSS for ELA). The standards establish clear and consistent goals for learning that will prepare America's children for success in college and work.This article describes the background of the Standards firstly. It analyses the course to bring forward the nation-wide curriculum standards in America, discusses the relationship between the Standards and some policies from the Bush gorvernment and the Obama gorvernment, and gives the opinion that the elementary education in America will be nationizing in the future. After that, it describes the course to draw and issue the Standards, and to let our readers form an image to the Standards, it introduces the content and structure of the Standards. Then, the article summarizes the key features of the Standards from two aspects. From the aspect of key design considerations, the Standards has four key features, which are(1)aligned with college and work expectations;(2)a focus on results rather than means;(3)shared responsibility for students' literacy development;(4)research and evidence based. For the content aspect, the article analyses the features of reading, writing, listenning and speaking, and language strands, and also the medium, skills feature reflected on those four strands. In the end, considering the Standards' features, the article analyses its meaning to use for reference and give suggestions of making the Chinese curriculum standards for mother language more readable and teachable, updating the content of it according to the demands of the sociaty, the subject and the students'development, and doing more foundational research to support the editing of the standards.