We at EdWeek have written about various organizations lining up in support of the multi-state effort to create common academic standards, as well as about skeptics of that plan and how it's being carried out. Now backers of the standards can boast that another group has rallied to their cause: parents, or at least parents represented by the National Parent Teacher Association.

The organization, headquartered in Chicago, released a statement on the eve of its annual meeting in sup...