Just days after the nation’s governors, state commissioners of education, school administrators and education experts proposed draft common core standards for K12 in English and math, major education groups responded. The National Education Association, the National School Boards Association and the Alliance for Excellent Education tout the new standards as promoting 21st-century skills of collaborating, problem solving and critical thinking. “This will be a Good Housekeeping seal of approval,” says Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.