Hiding The Ball: Educational Standards Rewrite Reflect Little Change
Governor Doug Ducey promised it would be better. Arizona’s education standards were supposed to be different, he said. The standards revision process was supposed to put Arizona’s students at the center of learning excellence in their classrooms.
According to documents obtained by the Arizona Daily Independent, those promises were not fulfilled. The secretive process prescribed by the State Board of Education staff left parents, teachers, and stakeholders with little hope and less time to ensure that public education remains reflective of the public’s will and students’ needs.
Parents and teachers across the nation decry the Common Core Standards and all it ushered in to classrooms. In 2010, through a largely secretive process, Common Core was adopted nationwide in short order. The process was anything but transparent. In Arizona, the Standards were accepted before the final draft was even completed. Parents in Arizona took notice of the fact that the Common Core Standards were experimental, developmentally inappropriate, and written largely by people employed…..
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