This was posted in one of the iNACOL forums a day or so ago (and is a follow-up from Common Core Standards Webinar – June 30 From 3-5pm EST).
Virtual Education and Common Core Standards
By Paul E. Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. 06/23/2010
Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether common standards create economies of scale for virtual learning products.
Listen to the Podcast at http://educationnext.org/virtual-education…core-standards/
This was posted to one of the iNACOL forums earlier this week. I asked about this issue a few weeks back (see Affects On Virtual Schooling?) – appears now we are getting closer to it being a reality. Feel free to comment on the standards in the manner outlined below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 2009
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT
NGA Center, CCSSO Release First Official Public Draft of the College- and Career-Readiness StandardsWASHINGTON—The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the first official public draft of the college- and career-readiness standards in English-language arts and mathematics as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a process being led by governors and chief state school officers in 51 states and territories. These standards define the knowledge and skills students should have to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing, academic college courses and in workforce training programs.
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Another reminder about this survey that showed up in my inbox.
Dear Online K-12 Professionals,
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) requests your participation in an important survey related to quality standards for online programs.
As part of our effort to establish a set of iNACOL quality online program criteria, we would like your input as part of the process. A committee from a wide variety of backgrounds (including K-12 online program leaders, accrediting associations, higher education, etc.) has worked over the past year to develop the standards listed in the survey link below.
We would appreciate your feedback on the questions posed in our survey. Your insights and experience will help to ensure that the iNACOL online program quality criteria are truly reflective of the best practices in K-12 online learning.
You can access the survey by COPYING & PASTING the following link into the address bar of your web browser.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2296Z6ZJKBF
If there is someone on your staff who you feel is more appropriate to complete this survey, please feel free to forward this request on to that person.
The approximate time needed to complete this survey is 20-25 minutes. The deadline for completing this survey is Monday, June 15, 2009.
Any questions should be sent to Allison Powell at apowell@inacol.org.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
The iNACOL staff
I first mentioned this back in iNACOL Quality Standards For Online Programs Feedback Survey, but I wanted to remind folks as teh deadline is a little less than two weeks away.
Dear Online K-12 Professionals,
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) requests your participation in an important survey related to quality standards for online programs.
As part of our effort to establish a set of iNACOL quality online program criteria, we would like your input as part of the process. A committee from a wide variety of backgrounds (including K-12 online program leaders, accrediting associations, higher education, etc.) has worked over the past year to develop the standards listed in the survey link below.
We would appreciate your feedback on the questions posed in our survey. Your insights and experience will help to ensure that the iNACOL online program quality criteria are truly reflective of the best practices in K-12 online learning.
You can access the survey by copying and pasting the following link into the address bar of your web browser.
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB2296Z6ZJKBF
If there is someone on your staff who you feel is more appropriate to complete this survey, please feel free to forward this request on to that person.
The approximate time needed to complete this survey is 20-25 minutes. The deadline for completing this survey is Monday, June 15, 2009.
Any questions should be sent to Allison Powell at apowell@inacol.org.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
The iNACOL staff
One of the issues that is often raised in K-12 online learning is the fact that everyone creates their own courses – I believe the question usually goes, “How many versions of Algebra I and II do we really need?” I know in the past some have argued that this was needed because of the differences in state standards and expectations. I wonder if this movement, should it be successful, will change that? Will this cause some sharing of curricular resources and online course content between program providers?
46 States, D.C. Plan to Draft Common Education Standards
By Maria GlodWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 1, 2009
Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools.
The push for common reading and math standards marks a turning point in a movement to judge U.S. children using one yardstick that reflects expectations set for students in countries around the world at a time of global competition. Today, each state decides what to teach in third-grade reading, fifth-grade math and every other class. Critics think some set a bar so that students can pass tests but, ultimately, are ill-prepared.
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Another item that I found posted on this movement, with a slightly different message, was from the iNACOL forums.
49 States & Territories Join Common Core State, Standards Initiative
FORTY-NINE STATES AND TERRITORIES JOIN COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS INITIATIVE
NGA Center, CCSSO Convene State-led Process to Develop Common
English-language arts and Mathematics StandardsWASHINGTON— The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today released the names of the states and territories that have joined the Common Core State Standards Initiative: Alabama; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; District of Columbia; Florida; Georgia; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Puerto Rico; Rhode Island; South Dakota; Tennessee; Utah; Vermont; Virgin Islands; Virginia; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; and Wyoming.
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