Draft common core finally is out
Tags: Common Core, Hoachlander, WurmanPosted in Common Core standards
California got its first glimpse Wednesday of draft common-core standards in math and English language arts that, sight-unseen, the Legislature has put the state on a path to adopting this summer.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell immediately praised the “rigorous” draft standards as “well organized to give a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn … to succeed in both college and the workforce.” And a number of national organizations, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the American Federation of Teachers, endorsed them.
But others expressed caution and criticism, particularly about some of the math standards and sequence of learning them. Among those was Ze’ev Wurman, a high-tech executive from Palo Alto who helped develop California’s standards and assessments in the mid-1990s.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell immediately praised the “rigorous” draft standards as “well organized to give a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn … to succeed in both college and the workforce.” And a number of national organizations, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the American Federation of Teachers, endorsed them.
But others expressed caution and criticism, particularly about some of the math standards and sequence of learning them. Among those was Ze’ev Wurman, a high-tech executive from Palo Alto who helped develop California’s standards and assessments in the mid-1990s.
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State replaces 3 dozen schools on ‘worst’ list
Posted in No Child Left Behind, Turning around failing schoolsThe State Board of Education will be asked today to approve a list of 188 failing schools that is significantly different from those that the State Department of Education proposed on Monday.
Education officials have dropped 37 middle and high schools from the original list (see end of this post for the names). Because of faulty methodology, many of those schools were higher performing that the schools that have replaced them. Whether the state has finally got it right is another matter.
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Education officials have dropped 37 middle and high schools from the original list (see end of this post for the names). Because of faulty methodology, many of those schools were higher performing that the schools that have replaced them. Whether the state has finally got it right is another matter.
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