46 States and D.C. to Pursue Common Education Standards - washingtonpost.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Jul 09
  

  Michael Wacker

  46 States, D.C. Plan to Draft Common Education Standards
  
  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 un

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• 09 Jul 09
  

  Kate Klingensmith

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• 04 Jun 09
  

  Sean Devine

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• 03 Jun 09
  

  Maria Mahon

  Attempts are being made to unify education standards nationally - "a step toward a uniform definition of success".

• 01 Jun 09
  

  Jessica Michael
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      Jimbo Lamb on 2009-06-01

      The problem that will still exist is that these will be minimum standards. What of the advanced students? Are there really going to be High School standards for Calculus II? Or are we just going to base them up to 11th grade? And therein lies the problem with standards. Not all children will achieve at the same level, yet that is was NCLB is saying. We need "standards" that are aimed for different levels and skill sets.
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  Doug Noon

  by Maria Glod - "If you agree to common standards but you don't agree to tests, it's like buying a car without a motor," said Jack Jennings, president of the D.C.-based Center on Education Policy. "It's buying the outside without getting the thing to work."

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  • The nearly complete support of governors for the effort -- leaders in Texas, Alaska, Missouri and South Carolina are the only ones that have not signed on -- is key.
  • But Wilhoit said the shift also would help improve schools. Companies and researchers could more easily create textbooks and professional training that meshed with the curriculum coast to coast.

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  Jimbo Lamb on 2009-06-01
  The problem that will still exist is that these will be minimum standards. What of the advanced students? Are there really going to be High School standards for Calculus II? Or are we just going to base them up to 11th grade? And therein lies the problem with standards. Not all children will achieve at the same level, yet that is was NCLB is saying. We need "standards" that are aimed for different levels and skill sets.

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