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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Draft Content Standards Elicit Mixed Reviews

Here are the documents mentioned in the article:

Preamble
ELA standards
Math standards

-Patricia


By Sean Cavanagh and Catherine Gewertz | Ed Week
July 28, 2009

A draft of common academic standards, meant to bring greater coherence to the nation’s English and mathematics lessons, is drawing a mix of enthusiastic, ambivalent, and barbed responses from those who have seen it.

The working document, which was unexpectedly put out for public consumption yesterday, is meant to serve as the first step of a standards-writing process, led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The crafting and review of those academic guidelines is expected to play out at least through the end of the year.

The draft that was circulated on the Web yesterday attempts to set “college- and career-readiness” standards for English and math—the skills students need to succeed in credit-bearing postsecondary courses and workforce-training programs.

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