Fun With Standards
This is from one of the groups that's trying to figure out the brave new world of 24/7 assessment, based on the CCS.
There's an entire layer of people for whom these distinctions are the be-all. I've never met anyone who actually teaches children in schools who thinks that the constant rewriting of standards has any practical effect on anything or anyone. Seriously, read the distinction between old standard C and new standard C. Would that distinction inform any decision you made on any given day? And what does this all mean in the age of differentiation?
I've served on curriculum committees in the age of standards and before the age of standards, in public and private schools. The difference now is that in the public world, the conversation is about these bureaucratic
There's an entire layer of people for whom these distinctions are the be-all. I've never met anyone who actually teaches children in schools who thinks that the constant rewriting of standards has any practical effect on anything or anyone. Seriously, read the distinction between old standard C and new standard C. Would that distinction inform any decision you made on any given day? And what does this all mean in the age of differentiation?
I've served on curriculum committees in the age of standards and before the age of standards, in public and private schools. The difference now is that in the public world, the conversation is about these bureaucratic
