 common core marathon session a michigan house subcommittee listened to almost six hours in a public hearing regarding common core educational standards for michigan rsquo s schools comments for and against the standards where presented to the committee for consideration one more hearing date is set for august 28 before a final decision is made for details of the committee hearing click on the following story link  http wwwmlivecom education indexssf 201308 marathonhearingoncommoncorhtml for and additional article on common core from the new york times click on the following link  http wwwnytimescom 20130816 education neweducationstandardsfacegrowingoppositionhtml r 0 19  common core marathon session  