http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/31/AR2009053102339.html?hpid=topnews
46 States, D.C. Plan to Draft Common Education Standards
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 1, 2009
Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools.
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Please note that this draft only. Also, please note about the reviewers and that those writing are being kept in secret for now.
So much for transparency in this Administration.
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One of the primary sponsors - the Council of Chief State School Officers - is also one of the listed partners in an NSF MSP entitled:
"Longitudinal Design to Measure Effects of MSP Professional Development in Improving Quality of Instruction in Mathematics and Science Education".
The other 2 partners are American Institutes for Research and the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
The Post article already says that they're not going to get into how to teach.
National standards will be more lofty rhetoric being used as cover for bad instructional practices.
It is most likely the Achieve Standard, that's why all the secrecy. We know the lineup. Now will anyone address the ethicacy of using poor textbooks?
Research-based is bogus science. Educational quackery.
Speaking of not going into how to teach reading or math since the national reports keep saying things that are unpopular at ed schools, there is a companion February 2009 practice guide on reading listed on the same IES website Dan posted recently on math.
It suggests as part of a Tier 3 intervention, right before turning the student over to a special ed classification, that an effective intervention for a struggling reader would be to teach SPELLING.
Who would have guessed that explicitly teaching spelling rules would promote reading for struggling readers?
Why do you have to be about to be pegged as LD before research steps in and says "practice in using the alphabetic strategy to spell words seems to transfer to reading words"?
We are losing an entire generation of students in this country in math and reading because the ed establishment doesn't like the most effective ways to teach reading and math.
Amen to this:
We are losing an entire generation of students in this country in math and reading because the ed establishment doesn't like the most effective ways to teach reading and math.School Boards need to stop trusting the hired help and start adopting what works.
The nonsense peddled by Superintendents and Colleges of Education needs to be discarded.
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