by Andrew Foster Twitter @abfosEd In the district where I teach, we are in the process of finding a new superintendent. The departing superintendent is loved by most and has positively affected our schools. The search has been extended into the summer and an interim superintendent has been named. The delay has taken its toll [...]
November 11, 2011
Assessments Affect Common Core Standards: PARCC
It’s one thing to create Common Core State Standards; it’s another to assess students taught with those standards. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is concerned with assessment and has just publically released the PARCC Model Content Frameworks in English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics. The Model Content Frameworks serve two [...]
March 24, 2010
Considerations
Standards-Setting Considerations The following considerations guided the standards development workgroups in setting the draft college and career readiness standards. Fewer, clearer, higher: One of the goals of this process was to produce a set of fewer, clearer and higher standards. It is critical that any standards document be translatable to and teachable in the classroom. [...]
