The Los Angeles Times notes that if dozens of states are working on common core standards, there will be lower cost and education reform will happen faster "because the states can share the expense of devising new textbook requirements, professional development and tests. There will be no need for each state to reinvent the academic wheel. California should become one of those states, starting with these common academic standards that are demanding enough to be proud of and engaging enough to touch off an era of more meaningful classroom instruction." Read the editorial.