Recommended Academic Standards Announced.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

The nation’s governors and state school chiefs released on Wednesday a new set of academic standards, their final recommendations for what students should master in English and math as they move from the primary grades through high school graduation.

The standards, which took a year to write, have been tweaked and refined in recent weeks in response to some of the 10,000 comments the public sent in after a draft was released in March.

The standards were made public at a news conference on Wednesday in Atlanta.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/education/03standards.html?hp

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I will wait and see if any of these "standards" are actully adopted..and

if it will actually make any difference..AND Do these apply to ALL schools..charter, private, parochial AND public?

EDIT; It seems that they are for PUBLIC schools. Does that include charter schools?

[elleng]

4. Personally I think the idea of nationwide standards is silly;

its a big country, VERY big.

I remember NYS Regents Exam, in the Good Old days. You?

Charter Schools ARE public schools, ya know!

[BrklynLiberal]

9. I remember Regents...even back then NYS and Callifornia were the only states that had regents...

I really wonder if they will be held to the same judgmental standards. I am very cynical about the charter school movement..and its proponents...and those that run them for profit....

[LiberalFighter]

2. Will it have standards on the history, science, and math books accepted?

[elleng]

5. Logically, of course, the texts should be related to curricula, right?

[BrklynLiberal]

10. hmmmm like the history textbooks in Texas......

:grr: :nuke:

[elleng]

8. The Standards:

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

[BrklynLiberal]

11. I see only English and Math..There is sooooooooo much more to education...

Amazing how they can use up 66 pages to say almost nothing of value...

These standards should be applied to TEACHING teachers, not students.!!!!
Teachers were once highly regarded and respected...not so any more.

When I went in to get my substitute teacher's license, there was a girl sitting next to me with her mother..and the damn twit had to be told by her mother how to spell her own name. I was appalled!!

If all the teachers knew what they were doing..and the best and the brightest were recruited to teach..we would not even have to be having this discussion

[Trillo]

3. So, will there be classes on living off the grid?

How to grow your own food?
How to find a place to live legally without money?

If not, then Big FAIL.

Edit: Once someone graduates from K-12, they should then be a "free" person, not a "dependent" person, often called the codeword "consumer".

[SkyDaddy7]

6. Screw English!

How about a foreign language?

What about SCIENCE?

[elleng]

7. Science, math, history included,

not foreign language.

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards