And one other bit of policy news — she defended the Common Core Education Standards which are pretty controversial, especially on the right.

还有一个跟政治相关的消息，她为美国共同核心课程标准进行了辩护，这项标准一直备受争议，尤其右翼群体的反对声最高。

In 2010, it was left out of the national common core education and standards, which are a set of learning goals that help teachers prepare students for college and future careers.

2010年，它被排除在国家共同核心教育和标准之外，这是一套学习目标，帮助教师为学生上大学和未来的职业生涯做好准备。

A number of variations of this belief exist, but the common core of it is that many of those who led the world have been replaced by extraterrestrials.

这种信念存在多种变体，但其共同核心是许多领导世界的人已被外星人取代。

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan supported the move, spending $350 million to develop Common Core tests. I believe this new generation of assessment is an absolute game changer for American education.

美国教育部长 Arne Duncan 支持此举，斥资 3.5 亿美元开发共同核心测试。我相信这种新一代的评估绝对是美国教育的游戏规则改变者。

Though America's " Common Core" curriculum from 2010 does not require handwriting instruction past first grade (roughly age six), about half the states since then have mandated more teaching of it, thanks to campaigning by researchers and handwriting supporters.

虽然从2010年开始，美国的“共同核心”课程不要求对一年级(大约六岁)以上的学生教授书写，但由于研究人员和书写支持者的不断争取，大约一半的州已经强制要求更多地教授书写。

And then, of course there's the factor that we have reported on, on this program plenty of times, Common Core, a lot of changes that are being introduced into the curriculum in high schools around the country.

当然，还有一个因素，我们已经报道过很多次了，关于这个项目，共同的核心，很多变化正在被引入到全国各地的高中课程中。M： Right。 M： 是的。