Florida Department of Education Suggests Changes in Common Core
The Florida Department of Education yesterday released a list of proposed changes to the Common Core Math and ELA standards. The list that will be considered by the Florida State Board of Education at their February 18th meeting includes 13 changes to the English language arts standards and 33 changes to the math standards. Nine of those changes in math are new standards.The changes include clarifications to make standards more grade appropriate like adding “with prompting and support” to instead of requiring kindergarteners to know the author and illustrator for each book they read or that they can ask and answer questions about unknown questions in a text. They are also adding cursive to the ELA standards (which they could do regardless since they can add 15% to the standards according to the agreement they signed).
Most of the changes were just to add clarity to the standards.
With math, they are suggesting, adding Calculus standards (again within the 15% margin).
You can see the ELA proposed changes below:
You can see the Math proposed changes below:
The commenting period ordered by Florida Governor Rick Scott ended on 10/31/14. The comments were supposedly evaluated and standards rewritten in 2 1/2 months (over the holidays). That’s pretty fast. Since it seemed as though they were adding text to clarify