Ze'ev Wurman
"National standards will affect our children and our economic future for years to come."
Yes, it will affect Missouri too!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
State Sovereignty - RTT funds for Education $tandard$
Yet, if the President and Congress are going to use carrots and sticks to create national standards, we need to look for a way out of the current Common Core morass. The federal rules for the RttT money could not and do not explicitly require the adoption of CCSSI’s standards. Instead, the rules provide a general requirement: States are to participate in a “consortium of states” that is developing a common set of K–12 standards which are “internationally benchmarked” and tied to “college and career readiness” and that includes “a significant number of States.”
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Concerns about state sovereignty raised at the House Education and Labor Committee
Hearing on Dec 8: http://tiny.cc/coercion
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Who Needs Mathematicians for Math, Anyway?
NAEP Mathematics: C
TIMSS Mathematics: A
PISA Mathematics: D
Mathematically speaking, NAEP is a mediocre national assessment, while TIMSS is an excellent international assessment.
So, why is the National Center for Education Statistics spending valuable time and resources producing reports like this one?
(By the way, this report was about performance standards, not content standards.)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
US Coalition for World Class Math!!
*Press Release*
"Extraordinary numbers of grassroots groups have formed in recent years to learn more about current issues in mathematics education and to promote improvements in K-12 mathematics curricula," says Coalition co-founder Timotha Trigg. "Many parents believe there is already a crisis in mathematics education and fear that poor standards, if adopted by states on a national scale, would make the situation even worse."
Sunday, June 28, 2009
MO Governor Signs-on to National Standards Initiative
(click to see the article)
"Nixon, in signing the national memorandum of agreement, made Missouri the 47th state to agree to help develop a list of grade-by-grade core skills that all students in the country should learn."
This could be a good thing...
IF NSI (NGA/CCSSO) JUST LISTENS TO SUBJECT-MATTER EXPERTS -THE RESULTS OF THEIR EFFORTS MIGHT ACTUALLY BENEFIT STUDENTS!
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