While the report does NOT recommend a delay in implementation per se, it does set out requirements for legislative notification prior to adoption
of Common Core standards in science and social studies.
Members decided that for the next meeting, there will be a careful
review of the Common Core standards so that everyone has an equal and thorough understanding of what the guidelines say.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has joined a national coalition of 200 colleges in 33 states, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards, advocating for the continued use
of Common Core standards for primary and high school education.
In Indiana, a former teacher named Glenda Ritz in 2012 defeated the incumbent state superintendent of public instruction, Tony Bennett, who had been a strong
supporter of the common core standards.
With the adoption
of the Common Core standards by almost every state, education publishers hurried to align their products with the new standards, entrepreneurs began developing technology to support the Common Core standards, and even more consultants hung out their shingles to sell their services to districts and states about how to implement the Common Core and how to engage in data collection, data management, and data analysis.
While the Regents and the lawmakers who developed their proposals held hours - long public hearings and discussed the implementation problems for months, Cuomo's panel met twice and heard from a group of panelists who were overwhelmingly
supportive of the Common Core standards, data collection, teacher evaluations and other contentious issues.
Magee will take over the union as Cuomo seeks to make changes to the teacher evaluation law after the state budget delayed
aspects of the Common Core standards for student assessment.
According to the New York Post, the Board of Regents will pass a proposal on Tuesday allowing educators to blame the rollout
of the Common Core standards as a reason for poor student performance:
Although there is a significant amount of flexibility afforded by the standards — including how content is taught and how students develop and demonstrate competence in their day - to - day classwork — the
rigor of the Common Core standards requires a systematic approach that scaffolds specific student learning needs across lessons, units, and grades or courses.
The
advent of the Common Core standards can and should boost the learning of America's ablest young learners, not serve as a rationale for denying them opportunities to fulfill their potential.
What ultimately matters is not whether states stay signed on to the empty
words of the Common Core standards, but whether those standards are used to engineer the deep, sustained change that advocates seek.