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Associate Professor of Education at Converse University.
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engage in a second round of reviews. This second invitation came as a result of three factors: (1... more engage in a second round of reviews. This second invitation came as a result of three factors: (1) the developers greatly valued the thorough, specific, and professional nature of our initial review, (2) the revision suggestions from NCTE and other reviewers had substantially changed the standards, and (3) the NCTE review committee had expressed concerns that many portions of the standards were incomplete in December, and thus, were not reviewed. Though the complete standards for this second review were slated to be released in the week of January 4th, 2010, NCTE did not receive the necessary documents until January 13th and was given just over one week to complete the review task. Generally speaking, the review committee was pleased to see follow-through on many recommendations from our first review, and spent the majority of our efforts not on praise but on specific issues which we felt would help to improve the quality, quantity, and intention of the Core Standards. Given the lim...
As members of the NCTE Review Team of the Common Core State Standards K–12 Benchmarks, we are ple... more As members of the NCTE Review Team of the Common Core State Standards K–12 Benchmarks, we are pleased to provide this critique. We approached this task guided not only by NCTE policy and practices but also by the growing understanding of what it means to educate students for productive life in the early 21
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engage in a second round of reviews. This second invitation came as a result of three factors: (1... more engage in a second round of reviews. This second invitation came as a result of three factors: (1) the developers greatly valued the thorough, specific, and professional nature of our initial review, (2) the revision suggestions from NCTE and other reviewers had substantially changed the standards, and (3) the NCTE review committee had expressed concerns that many portions of the standards were incomplete in December, and thus, were not reviewed. Though the complete standards for this second review were slated to be released in the week of January 4th, 2010, NCTE did not receive the necessary documents until January 13th and was given just over one week to complete the review task. Generally speaking, the review committee was pleased to see follow-through on many recommendations from our first review, and spent the majority of our efforts not on praise but on specific issues which we felt would help to improve the quality, quantity, and intention of the Core Standards. Given the lim...
As members of the NCTE Review Team of the Common Core State Standards K–12 Benchmarks, we are ple... more As members of the NCTE Review Team of the Common Core State Standards K–12 Benchmarks, we are pleased to provide this critique. We approached this task guided not only by NCTE policy and practices but also by the growing understanding of what it means to educate students for productive life in the early 21
First Opinions Second Reactions, 2009