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Education’s Challenges
The identification of education’s root problem
revealed why today’s state content standards are problematic.
And, it verified the reasons why state standards could not be
translated into effective and usable instructional material.
The delivery of standards-based education is a
systemic, multi-level process.
The root problem’s visible impact is in the classroom, but its source and
causes extend across the education system and are found at the federal,
state, district, school or classroom levels.
Standards are the heart, but must be supported
by a fully functional, integrated system focused on
education’s primary objective, the effective
transfer of content knowledge to students.
Any strategy to develop and implement content standards
must be systemic and unified.
An approach to develop content standards, whether it be
common standards, state standards or local ones, must
effectively integrate and comprehensively support all the
education system processes.
These include
management, operations, communications, data,
curriculum, assessments, instruction and professional
development.
To positively impact student achievement at
the classroom level, a comprehensive and integrated systemic solution for
the root, and its related teaching and learning problems, is needed.
The challenge is not envisioning the standard.
It is defining them as
teachable and measurable, and establishing them as the primary input to
classroom curriculum.
The solution must be systemic and aligned by design to education’s
knowledge-centric mission to ensure student achievement gains.
An effective standards-based education system
will be unified in mission and action at the federal, state, district,
school, classroom and community levels.
Its design and operations will drive
operational
efficiencies, utilize real-time data-based decision-making, and continuously
improve services.
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Initiative can solve
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