Mark Your Ed Reform Calendars
To paraphrase from edu-son's favorite band, Black Eyed Peas, this week's gonna be a good week ... at least for those in the education reform community. We have core standards, and RttT, and ESEA, oh my!
According to Education Daily, National Governors Association officials are now saying that the much-anticipated draft K-12 common core standards (reading and math) will be released next week. Assuming protocols hold, we'll all then have 30 days to respond, react, and critique under the public comment period. It seems NGA and the Council of Chief State School Officers is still working toward finalization of the K-12 and college/career ready standards by June, so that states can adopt them by July (as called for under Race to the Top).
And speaking of the great Race, EdWeek's Michele McNeil is reporting at the Politics K-12 blogthat Phase One RttT finalists will be announced Thursday, March 4 (that's tomorrow, folks) at 11:30 a.m. The list of nominees will be announced online by ED's communications office. Those finalists will then be coming to DC to put on a nice little Ides of March show for the judges, with initial awards slated to come before we've played a full month of baseball.
According to Education Daily, National Governors Association officials are now saying that the much-anticipated draft K-12 common core standards (reading and math) will be released next week. Assuming protocols hold, we'll all then have 30 days to respond, react, and critique under the public comment period. It seems NGA and the Council of Chief State School Officers is still working toward finalization of the K-12 and college/career ready standards by June, so that states can adopt them by July (as called for under Race to the Top).
And speaking of the great Race, EdWeek's Michele McNeil is reporting at the Politics K-12 blogthat Phase One RttT finalists will be announced Thursday, March 4 (that's tomorrow, folks) at 11:30 a.m. The list of nominees will be announced online by ED's communications office. Those finalists will then be coming to DC to put on a nice little Ides of March show for the judges, with initial awards slated to come before we've played a full month of baseball.