Two critical education issues for the Connecticut legislature By Anne Manusky - Wait What?:
Two critical education issues for the Connecticut legislature By Anne Manusky
Two critical education issues for the Connecticut legislature By Anne Manusky
From my perspective we have two critical points in the current Connecticut education crisis that must be dealt with first during the General Assembly’s 2017 session: One, the Common Core State Standards – they are developmentally inappropriate for many of our children, especially those in the elementary years. And Two: Measuring our children using the new state mastery test, which lacks psychometric test validation and reliability.
It takes time for children to reach certain levels of development (i.e. vision development is not typically fully acquired until between the age of 8 and 10; and a child’s first baby tooth will typically fall out about the age of 6 or 7). Years of child development theorists’ research, seem to have been thrown aside when children’s education standards were proposed to be redrawn by the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers.
Why this “education” without allowing for typical development? Pushing children to mentally do things they are incapable of is a form of child abuse. The Connecticut Core Standards are in need of major overhaul and return to developmental appropriateness.
As for measuring academic progress, the Smarter Balanced Assessments are purported to use the Connecticut Core Standards to determine academic mastery levels of our public
Two critical education issues for the Connecticut legislature By Anne Manusky - Wait What?:
