Ed Week Commentary: Give the Standards Back to Teachers...

Posted Thu, 08/02/2012 - 12:19pm by eileen

An article by John Ewing in August 2 Education Week: Give the Standards Back to Teachers, argues that Common Core standards and assessments as a measure of achievement - for students, for teachers, for education in general - will fail unless teachers "own" the standards; and they will have the best chance for successful implementation of the Common Core. 

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"But if the core of the standards morphs into assessments alone—if they are administered from above, seen mainly as a way to compare things (students, teachers, and schools), and used largely to identify and weed out “failure”—then the new standards will become one more reform that arrives with great fanfare and gradually dissipates with little lasting effect."