State board chair defends common core standards and integrated math
Here is the other side of the common core debate by Wanda Barrs, chair of the Georgia Board of Education, a teacher and environmental educators. (You ought to read this in tandem with the blog entry prior.)
By Wanda Barrs
The Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association, co-chaired by Gov. Sonny Perdue, recently issued a common set of English language arts and mathematics standards that states can adopt.
Through these Common Core State Standards, students, teachers, parents, colleges and employers throughout Georgia, and indeed much of the United States, will have a first-class guide to what our children must know and be able to do to succeed in college, the 21st-century workplace and as contributing citizens in our democracy.
Will implementing the Common Core State Standards in Georgia reverse or shut down the implementation of our Georgia Performance Standards?
Is this is a federal mandate to “take over”