PREPARE AND INSPIRE:
K-12 EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE
In the recommendations of the Executive Summary, you'll find this -
The Federal Government should vigorously support the state-led effort to develop common standards in STEM subjects, by providing financial and technical support to states for (i) rigorous, high-quality professional development aligned with shared standards, and (ii) the development, evaluation, administration, and ongoing improvement of assessments aligned to those standards.
The standards and assessments should reflect the mix of factual knowledge, conceptual understanding, procedural skills, and habits of thought described in recent studies by the National Research Council.
1 comment:
State led effort to develop common standards? EXCUSE ME? Although put together under the auspices of National Governors Assn and the Council of State School Officers (CCSSOO there asn't much that was "state led" about the common core math standards. If the federal govt really wanted good common standards why didn't they urge states to look at California's, Indiana's and Massachusetts'standards and suggest that these might make good common standards. As it was, they wrote the math standards in a rather closed fashion, dangled money in front of the states and awarded oiubts ub tge Race to the Top fund competition for states that adopted "common standards". True, states could have acopted California's or Massachusetts' but for some reason they seemed to gravitate towards the common core standards. Why? Because they were so good? Don't think so. Even California and Mass. dropped their excellent standards and adopted the common core. Money talks. But that's OK; if the White House wants to call it a state led process, I'm sure people will believe them.
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