State Board adopts Common Core State Standards
The Arkansas State Board of Education today adopted the Common Core State Standards, a voluntary, state-led set of learning standards in mathematics and English languate arts that were created by an initiative of the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association.
Arkansas is the 24th state in the nation to formally adopt the Common Core State Standards.
The standards are designed to prepare students to be ready for college or career upon graduation from high school by presenting a logical progression of lessons throughout the grades that are benchmarked internationally and that are deemed to be higher, fewer and deeper than those found in many states. The idea, as Dr. Gayle Potter informed the State Board, is to allow teachers to teach to deeper levels of understanding for permanent learning.
The standards will not be taught in the classroom this year. A transition plan to incorporate them into Arkansas classrooms, complete with curriculum development, professional development, and a new set of assessments is being developed now.
Posted by JJT.
