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Calling All Teachers: Your Voice Wanted on Common Standards

By Stephen Sawchuk — March 10, 2010 1 min read
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So reports Catherine Gewertz over at Curriculum Matters. Apparently, the groups leading the common-standards effort particularly want input into whether the new grade-level standards, which will be released this week, are “teachable.”

Catherine makes a good point, however, in noting that teachers’ comments on the proposals will be summarized rather than made broadly accessible, as they are for the federal-regulatory process. Why is that? Good question.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Teacher Beat blog.