Post by Chris_Wendt on Sept 28, 2013 7:11:23 GMT -5
Paraphrasing Newsday article (9/26)
It looks like the 2013 Assessment Scores are about to be "released" (unleashed) upon parents.
Are we ready for this Wantagh?
The PARCC consortium, of which New York is a member, had agreed to initiate Common Core Assessments in 2014-15, but the NY Commissioner of Education decided to jump the gun and implement these assessments two years ahead of the agreed-upon schedule. Not only were our schools, our teachers, and our students not reasonably prepared for those tests, but now NY has what NY calls "Common Core Assessments" which will be different than the Common Core Assessments now being developed by the PARCC consortium.
Commissioner King and NYSED have thereby rendered the "Common Core" NOT common, at the assessment level, the essential basis of comparison.
NY needs a new Commissioner of Education.
Read the complete article here.
Passionately,
Chris Wendt
"Smithtown's school board has unanimously approved a resolution critical of the rollout of Common Core standards for reading and math."
"The resolution came as Smithtown schools officials prepared to mail out individual student results for state reading and math exams, which they warned could be dramatically lower than in past years. Fifty percent of students in grades 3-8 passed the English test, and 48 percent passed the math test, officials reported."
"Last year, 78 percent of Smithtown students passed the English test and 87 percent passed the math test."
"'My fear is that when we see the results . . . we'll put all our resources into testing,' she said, a move that would be 'antithetical to what we do here....' The district's 'whole child' approach is also concerned with creativity, citizenship, and social and emotional growth....'"
It looks like the 2013 Assessment Scores are about to be "released" (unleashed) upon parents.
Are we ready for this Wantagh?
The PARCC consortium, of which New York is a member, had agreed to initiate Common Core Assessments in 2014-15, but the NY Commissioner of Education decided to jump the gun and implement these assessments two years ahead of the agreed-upon schedule. Not only were our schools, our teachers, and our students not reasonably prepared for those tests, but now NY has what NY calls "Common Core Assessments" which will be different than the Common Core Assessments now being developed by the PARCC consortium.
Commissioner King and NYSED have thereby rendered the "Common Core" NOT common, at the assessment level, the essential basis of comparison.
NY needs a new Commissioner of Education.
Read the complete article here.
Passionately,
Chris Wendt