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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