Sunday, November 3, 2013

The States decision on the CCSS

With the resignation of a Democratic Senator from the educational committee overseeing the decision of the CCSS in Wisconsin for reasons stated as not wasting his time on a committee that clearly has a alternative agenda and is not listening to the overwhelming majority of positive response to the CCSS, it appears the state is headed for a new process.  While at the hearing, there was a lot of mention of the Massachusetts State Standards and how much better they are than the CCSS.

I am not sure about you but when I looked at the standards from Massachusetts, they looked a whole lot like the CCSS.  So I made a little checklist.  Here is what is in the Massachusetts math standards.
     - 8 Mathematical Practices - check
     - K-8 standards by grade level - check
     - 9-12 standards not listed by grade level - check
     - Plus standards and modeling standards - check
     - An emphasis on application and depth of instruction - check

So what is different?
     - almost nothing - no standards have been removed
     - In all of K-12, only 16 standards have been added.  Of those, 9 of them are "clarification" standards.
     - That means that in all of K-12 there are only 7 added standards.  

What a great idea.  Lets get them.  If that is the difference that the Wisconsin wants I am all for it.  I will just keep doing what I am doing and be just fine.  8-)

What a tremendous waste of time this is!

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