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A total of 46 states and the District of Columbia applied for either the first or second rounds – or both. The 19 finalists are: Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.
AND an interesting post from Jay P. Greene on Checker Finn's change of mind...
Checker made an excellent case against national standards… in 1997.
The current national standards and assessment craze has similarly not been authorized by Congress and is being spear-headed by the very same Council of Chief State School Officers that Checker denounced as “one of the establishment’s most change-averse crews.”
Showing posts with label National goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National goals. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Comments sought by Obama Administration
If you go over here you will be at an electronic form that allows you to submit suggestions for President-Elect Obama's education agenda.
Catherine Johnson has come up with three very succinct and cogent goals for education which she has submitted to her local school board (Irvington). You may wish to submit these as a suggestion--modifying as you see fit, of course. (Catherine has given permission to use these as a template for anyone in communicating with various authorities.)
I have changed Catherine's goals slightly, by substituting "U.S." for "Irvington". I also added a parenthetical about NAEP, which you may wish not to include. It is my particular beef. If you do include it, note that I use the word "test" rather than "assess". I urge you to do the same.
Here are the goals:
Goal number 1: Increase steadily the number of U.S. students whose academic achievement is on par with that of their peers in Europe and Asia.
Goal number 2: Increase steadily the number of U.S. students prepared to succeed in college work, with "Evidence of Attainment" being a steady increase in SAT scores. (NAEP scores should be disregarded until such time as the NAEP is revised to actually test age-appropriate content that students should be expected to master.)
Goal number 3: Reduce systematically the need for parents to reteach content and hire tutors.
Much thanks and appreciation to Catherine for coming up with these.
Catherine Johnson has come up with three very succinct and cogent goals for education which she has submitted to her local school board (Irvington). You may wish to submit these as a suggestion--modifying as you see fit, of course. (Catherine has given permission to use these as a template for anyone in communicating with various authorities.)
I have changed Catherine's goals slightly, by substituting "U.S." for "Irvington". I also added a parenthetical about NAEP, which you may wish not to include. It is my particular beef. If you do include it, note that I use the word "test" rather than "assess". I urge you to do the same.
Here are the goals:
Goal number 1: Increase steadily the number of U.S. students whose academic achievement is on par with that of their peers in Europe and Asia.
Goal number 2: Increase steadily the number of U.S. students prepared to succeed in college work, with "Evidence of Attainment" being a steady increase in SAT scores. (NAEP scores should be disregarded until such time as the NAEP is revised to actually test age-appropriate content that students should be expected to master.)
Goal number 3: Reduce systematically the need for parents to reteach content and hire tutors.
Much thanks and appreciation to Catherine for coming up with these.
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