Superintedents break down value of Common Core testing

Senate Education Committee Chairman Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, said the review is a chance to ensure rigorous classroom standards so that Louisiana can emerge from the “bottom of all those socioeconomic measures”.

Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Brian McDonald declined to say whether he was in favor of suspending the test.

“I don’t think it’s a big secret to anybody that works in education, that probably your No. 1 factor in determining how schools are performing is the poverty rate”, he said.

Reactions to the CAHSEE suspension among students were mixed. What’s worse, 20 percent of the schools do not have an arts teacher of any kind.

“New York opt-out”, Burris wrote, “is reverberating around the nation. What is to celebrate, is that we are making incremental progress”.

“When students refuse to participate in state assessments, districts and schools are at risk of becoming ineligible for grants, such as Reward School Grants, that require schools and/or districts to make AYP and/or be in Good Standing as a condition for funding”, Burman said in an email. In fact, an administrative stance of, “I know this is a complete waste of our time and probably educational malpractice, but I’m not actually going to do anything about it” is beyond irritating.

Newark officials look to the test data to reveal strengths they can build on and weaknesses they need to address. Brown said she’d like to ask the candidates.

“Passing the California High School Exit Examination was added as a requirement for high school graduation beginning with the Class of 2006”, Liu’s bill explains. Business leaders countered that the standards improve education and make North Carolina competitive.

Brown said she wants the candidates to go beyond some of the popular rhetoric about repealing the standards, and she’ll try to clear up misconceptions about their creation.

A few folks and educators grumbled Common Core was severely composed. And, finally, how do we assess student performance against these standards?

The group compared North Carolina standards to those from Massachusetts adopted in 2001, California and Texas from 2008, and Virginia, which like Texas, did not adopt Common Core. “The pushback against the Common Core exams caught fans of high-stakes testing off guard, with estimates of New York test refusals now exceeding 200,000”. (All times are local).

“It’s unfortunate that the tests have become politicized by the governor and other organizations”, he said.

Students can take both courses tests, if they’d like, or just the Common Core Algebra I test “as that is the curriculum they are being taught”. It’s unclear whether Republicans would support Common Core if it were marketed differently, or whether they instead support the idea of standards but oppose the specific standards in Common Core.

In a U.S. News and World Report Debate Club Post last year, professional opinions about Common Core came to no solid consensus.

Louisiana’s new academic standards committees for public schools meet Wednesday (Aug. 19) in Baton Rouge to start a closely watched review. “Higher standards, along with real accountability and school choice and ending social promotion and teacher effectiveness plans and rewarding teachers for continuous improvement [in] student learning – all that together yields rising student achievement”.