Common Core Standards

by Robert Pondiscio
September 21st, 2009

The revised draft is up.  Read ‘em here.  EdWeek’s Curriculum Matters has reaction here.  Flypaper weighs in here.   I haven’t the chance to pore over the documents, but hope to do so later today or tonight.  That said, it’s good to see an extra measure of clarity: “Standards are not curriculum,” notes the release from the NGA.  ”The curriculum that follows will continue to be a local responsibility (or state-led, where appropriate),” it concludes.  Outside the ed bubble (and sometime inside it) that distinction is not clear.

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  1. I glanced through the English standards and thought they were fine but pretty nebulous. I’ve been very leery of the idea of nationalizing standards but these were so vague that I didn’t see anything objectionable. These weren’t grade-by-grade “you *VILL* study these topics” like the current state standards are. OTOH, they were so non-specific that I don’t really see the point of having them.

    Comment by Crimson Wife — September 21, 2009 @ 6:28 pm

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