The Common Core State Standards Initiative, established to develop rigorous standards to identify what children across our nation should know and be able to do, has released its draft standards for K-12 education for public review and comment.
We seek your feedback as we prepare to submit comments on the draft K-12 Common Standards. We strongly encourage principals to review the standards and post comments below. You may also submit your comments by e-mail to advocacy@naesp.org. Please submit your comments to NAESP by Friday, March 26 to help inform our formal response to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. (Should you wish to submit your own comments, they are due to Common Core by April 2, 2010).
The Common Core initiative was established by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers as a means of enabling states and regions to voluntarily adopt rigorous academic standards that would be used to benchmark students from across the country on their college and career readiness. NAESP has supported this initiative since its inception and now eagerly looks forward to reviewing the proposed standards.
re: Federal Update: Draft Common Standards Released
It is known now, that Texas and Alaska are not convinced that the Government should be directly involved in determining standards for everyone. I still believe that each state should and many have developed standards that relate directly to their stakeholders. This I believe would be most helpful and provide a better understanding of just what is needed and suggested at the state level.
re: Federal Update: Draft Common Standards Released
At state level they will have more access to data that will have more qualitative information on the needs and lack of skills resources in that particular state. But at national level the database pool may be able to offer ideas on a more global level. Maybe there could be a combination of both. Use best of practice from across the country along with specific state needs.