Dive Brief:

• A North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission has begun examining the Common Core State Standards in order to determine how to go about creating a replacement.  
• The commission, which has been asked to create new standards that the state's Board of Education can then vote on, was specifically told not to just re-create the Common Core.  
• The state's legislature voted in favor of the Common Core being repealed in June.  

Dive Insight:

Reviewing what has been in place since 2010 is probably a good place to start. Though the legislators creating the commission specifically asked for new standards that were clearly different from the Common Core, it's still important to not just throw the baby out with the bath water — especially since so many teachers have already been using the Common Core for the past three years. When North Carolina voted in June to drop the Common Core, state Superintendent June Atkinson was against the decision, saying such drastic changes force teachers to "go back to the drawing board.”

North Carolina isn't alone in starting the process of creating new standards. Earlier this week, Missouri also began considering what it could change. It's not going very well.