Thursday, April 22, 2010
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Washington, DC
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Achieve and the Hunt Institute invite you to join us in:
Understanding the Common Core State Standards
The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School officers recently released draft K-12 Common Core State Standards in English/Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics. These standards could represent an important step forward for American K-12 education, in that they are—their creators say—evidence-based, internationally benchmarked and lay out a logical, manageable grade-by-grade progression for what it will take for a student to graduate from high school college- and career-ready in ELA and mathematics. But how, exactly, do the draft standards accomplish this? Join us on Thursday, April 22, for a discussion of the Common Core State Standards. Learn more about the content, organization and focus of the standards. The discussion will include a review of the evidence base and an exchange on how the standards can provide a solid foundation for improving student achievement.
Panelists:
Jason Zimba, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Bennington College, Student Achievement Partners and member of the CCSSI mathematics work team
David Coleman, President, Student Achievement Partners and member of the CCSSI English Language Arts work team
Moderator:
Chester E. Finn, Jr., President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Thursday, April 22nd
10 AM – 11:30 AM
Light refreshments served
Registration opens at 9:30 AM
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Please RSVP to Vernitta Cooper at [email protected] or 202-419-1568.
You can watch this event live on the web at www.edexcellence.net. Web viewers can email questions during the event to [email protected]. Please keep questions brief and include the subject line “Common Core Event.”
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The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is a non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing educational excellence in America's K-12 schools. We promote policies that strengthen accountability and expand education options. Our reports examine issues such as No Child Left Behind and school choice. For more information about the Institute's work, visit www.edexcellence.net.
Achieve is a bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization – created by our nation’s governors and CEO’s - that has worked with states, individually and through the 35-state American Diploma Project, for over a decade to ensure that state K-12 standards, graduation requirements, assessments and accountability systems are calibrated to graduate students from high school ready for college, careers and life. Achieve has partnered with NGA and CCSSO on the Common Core State Standards Initiative and a number of its staff and consultants serve on writing and review teams. For more information about Achieve, see www.achieve.org.
Created by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors in 2001, the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy works with leaders to secure America's future through quality education. Working at the intersection of policy and politics, the Hunt Institute connects leaders with the best strategies for developing and implementing policies and programs to improve public education. To that end, the Institute convenes governors, policymakers, legislators, and business and civic leaders across the nation to provide them with the best information to make informed policy decisions. An affiliated center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the institute is a non-partisan, non-profit entity that does not lobby for, or take positions on, state and federal legislation. For more information, visit www.hunt-institute.org.