Development begins on the college and career ready standards to address what students are expected to know and understand by the time they graduate from high school. Following that work, an initial feedback group receives the first draft of college and career readiness graduation standards for review.
By September, the finally tally will include 51 states and territories. To prepare to develop the grade by grade standards based on the college and career readiness standards, steps are taken to organize the development and review process.
Formal work groups and feedback groups are created to develop and review the K standards. Teachers were involved in the work groups and at every stage of review. NGA and CCSSO release for public comment a draft of college and career ready standards a product of input from the standards' writing team, state education agency leaders, and a panel of outside education experts and practitioners. Nearly 1, responses, summarized here , were received from educators and the public. States and feedback group provide additional comments.
A validation committee , formed earlier in the year to provide independent, expert validation of the process of identify Common Core State Standards, comments on college and career readiness standards. First draft of the K grade by grade college and career readiness standards is released for comment by chiefs and other state education agency staff the states.
Assuming the full board approves them at its meeting Tuesday, they are not expected to be in full use in classrooms until And students will not be tested on them until , according to state officials who released a timeline on Monday. The new standards are available here. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing the information families and educators need, but this kind of work isn't possible without your help.
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States weren't explicitly required to adopt the Common Core in order to compete for the federal money; they could have used their own standards if they proved to the Education Department that those standards prepared students for college.
Nearly all of them adopted Common Core instead, and all of the states who eventually won the grants were Common Core states. Another grant program was created to help develop tests based on Common Core standards. The federal government has other levers to promote Common Core, too. It waives some requirements of No Child Left Behind, the education reform law, for states that among other things adopt "college and career-ready standards" and assessments based on those standards.
But Texas, Virginia, and Minnesota got waivers from the law without adopting the Common Core by proving that that their standards could prepare kids for college and careers. Opponents of the Common Core are a pretty varied group, as are supporters. Chamber of Commerce, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush among them and others who oppose it, particularly from the Tea Party. The Democratic party is also divided, as it often is on education reform issues: The Obama administration supports the Common Core, while teachers' unions have concerns about how it's being implemented and some on the left are opposed to continuing to emphasize standardized tests at all.
After George W. Bush expanded the federal role in education through No Child Left Behind, a growing sector of the Republican Party has returned to viewing education as a local and state responsibility.
They believe local authorities are best at determining what's appropriate for children to learn in that state or community. As a result, they distrust the idea of quasi-national standards promoted by the federal government.
Some Republican governors who initially supported the Common Core have tried to walk a fine line as controversy has erupted, saying they support the standards but oppose the federal government's involvement.
Others, including presumed candidates in , have denounced it as a federal takeover: Sens. There are also Common Core opponents on the left, who worry about student privacy, the growth of standardized testing, and how the standards are being implemented. Some liberals are suspicious of the education reform movement, which encourages the growth of charter schools and minimizes the role of teachers' unions. They also don't like that Common Core continues to emphasize standardized testing.
Because students are likely to perform poorly on early Common Core tests, they say that those results will be used to argue that American public schools are failing and charter schools or vouchers are the solution. Diane Ravitch, a former Bush administration official who later turned away from the education reform movement, is one of the most prominent opponents from this line of thinking.
She says she supports voluntary national standards in theory, but argues the Common Core standards are untested. She also opposes raising standards so high that students cannot meet them. Standards are about what students should know or know how to do; curriculum is about how they're taught to know or do those things.
For example, the Common Core standards require second-graders to be able to contrast two versions of the same story. But teachers are free to pick what lesson plans are used to teach that skill, and states still pick what books are assigned for children to read.
Federal law prohibits the Education Department from interfering in curriculum, which is determined at the state and local level. However, the Common Core standards are very detailed. The second-grade standard on comparing stories includes an example, although schools aren't required to use it: How the Cinderella tale differs across cultures.
Some critics say that this level of detail starts the United States down a slippery slope to a single, national curriculum. Most states that have adopted Common Core standards have also joined one of two groups, called consortia, that are creating new standardized tests.
Every state in each consortium will use the tests that consortium creates. The tests will measure how well students are doing at meeting Common Core standards in reading and math, which is meant to measure whether they'll be ready for college and careers by the end of high school. States will continue to administer the tests at the end of the year, just as they do now. The federal government gave grants to two consortia to develop Common Core assessments.
Both are nonprofit groups. As pushback to the the Common Core increases, states are rolling back their commitment to the standard by saying they'll write their own tests rather than use the tests the two consortia create. It's a way to pull back without getting rid of the standards themselves.
Some Common Core supporters are worried about that, because if states are writing their own tests, it's easy for them to define proficiency however they want — which would undercut the benefit of common standards.
Not all that well. So far, only two states, New York and Kentucky, have given their students tests on how well they're meeting Common Core standards. They're still using their own tests, not the tests that the two consortia of states are developing. Myth : The standards are just vague descriptions of skills and do not include a reading list or any other reference to content. Fact : The standards do include sample texts that demonstrate the level of text complexity appropriate for the grade level and compatible with the learning demands set out in the standards.
The exemplars of high-quality texts at each grade level provide a rich set of possibilities and have been very well received. This provides a reference point for teachers when selecting their texts, along with the flexibility to make their own decisions about what texts to use.
Myth : English teachers will be asked to teach science and social studies reading materials. Fact : With the ELA standards, English teachers will still teach their students literature as well as literary nonfiction.
However, because college and career readiness overwhelmingly focuses on complex texts outside of literature, these standards also ensure students are being prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum, including in history and science. These goals can be achieved by ensuring that teachers in other disciplines are also focusing on reading and writing to build knowledge within their subject areas.
The standards require that a portion of what is read in high school should be informational text, yet the bulk of this portion will be accounted for in non-ELA disciplines that do not frequently use fictional texts.
This means that stories, drama, poetry, and other literature account for the majority of reading that students will do in their ELA classes. Fact : The Common Core drafting process relied on teachers and standards experts from across the country.
In addition, many state experts came together to create the most thoughtful and transparent process of standard setting. This was only made possible by many states working together. Fact : The standards have made careful use of a large and growing body of evidence. In English language arts, the standards build on the firm foundation of the National Assessment of Education Progress NAEP frameworks in reading and writing, which draw on extensive scholarly research and evidence. Fact : Teachers know best about what works in the classroom.
That is why these standards establish what students need to learn but do not dictate how teachers should teach.
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