Every weekday I’m reading the news and sharing the key education headlines. Today: Hawaii’s community leaders discuss common core standards, an expert suggests how to keep students engaged during the summer and Indiana’s governor has a creative solution for unused school buildings.

• A group of community leaders gathered last week to discuss how the new common core curriculum standards will be implemented in Hawaii, KITV reported on Friday.

• An education consultant offered tips on how to keep children from backsliding academically during the summer — over at The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet blog.

• Indiana’s governor is trying to get the public school system to transfer all its unused buildings to charter schools seeking physical homes — instead of making taxpayers pay for both the unused public school buildings and the purchase of new charter school buildings, The Associated Press reported.

• Arthur Rothkopf, senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, writes that proposed legislation to curb student loans at for-profit colleges has parts that qualify as “arbitrary and capricious,” in a column at National Journal Online.

• In Ohio, some school retirees are “double dipping” — re-entering the labor force while still collecting pension — at a time when the district is struggling to make ends meet, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

• In a weak labor market, quick credential programs at colleges are the key to getting laid-off employees getting back on their feet, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Friday.

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