Sunday, November 15, 2009

Flypaper: Education reform ideas that stick, from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute


Flypaper: Education reform ideas that stick, from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute:

"Posted on November 13, 2009 at 11:41 am by Jamie Davies O'Leary
Ohio keeps its word, will adopt Common Core Standards

For the last month, we’ve been wondering whether Ohio would truly adopt the NGA/CCSSO Common Core State Standards , or whether the Ohio Department of Education would forge its own path in revising academic content standards so as to meet the June 2010 deadline. The issue was one of timing, as Common Core Standards won’t be finalized until January, and this didn’t give Ohio enough time to meet its June 2010 mandate.

Given that Fordham gave Ohio a “D+” in our last State of the State Standards report, and that we think the Common Core Standards are substantially better (see our latest report, “Stars by Which to Navigate“), the possibility of Ohio reneging on the Common Core Initiative was worrisome. Emmy wrote on Flypaper:"