Thursday, August 23, 2012
An Oakland Schools math education consultant talks with school board members about changes in content standards and assessments.
While new Common Core standards won't be fully implemented in Farmington Schools until the 2015-2016 school year, educators will be using what they have learned in this school year's lessons. Adopted by the Michigan Dept. of Education in 2010, the new set of rigorous standards is shared by 45 states, Oakland Schools Mathematics Education Consultant Valerie Mills told Farmington School Board members Tuesday. "This change that's coming the potential to be the most dramatic and the most productive change we've seen in education since the Dewey Decimal system started organizing books in libraries," Mills said. Common Core content standards focus on the expectations for what students should know at their grade level, without directing how they…
Monday, January 2, 2012
In 2011, the district struggled with the demolition of four buildings, a lawsuit, tense union negotiations and tougher academic standards.
It seemed like the hits just kept on coming for Farmington Public Schools in 2011. From a controversial building sale to unsettling news about academic performance under new state standards, officials often faced angry parents at board meetings. But the district also celebrated some significant milestones. Here are a few of the year's biggest stories: A controversial vote in January authorized the solicitation of bids for the demolition of elementary buildings closed in 2010, and Fairview Early Childhood Center, closed in 2006. Wooddale, Flanders and William Grace Elementary and Fairview Early Childhood Center were eventually leveled, but officials in January received an offer for Eagle Elementary, from the Islamic Cultural Association (…
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Michigan and 45 states across the country brace themselves for rigorous curriculum requirements for K-12 classrooms.
In preparation for sweeping changes to school curriculum, Farmington Public Schools teachers are among those working to modify lesson plans so that they are in step with new academic standards approved statewide. For instance, most ninth-graders, who might normally take Algebra, will take a new course called Secondary Mathematics 1, or an honors version of that course, which will include concepts in algebra, geometry, statistics, and pre-calculus. Language arts, meanwhile, will also be heavily revised to include more complex reading, and more emphasis on persuasive writing. These changes and more are slowly being rolled out in school districts around Michigan to comply with the Common Core initiative adopted by the Michigan Department of …
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Common Core Standards will set the pace for student learning for years to come.
The Common Core Standards, which the State Board of Education unanimously adopted in June 2010, is a set of rigorous, college and career-ready curriculum standards for students that 46 states across the nation already adopted to bring consistency in education. "The standards will for the first time provide states with clear and consistent educational goals and represent a logical next step in our state's efforts to embrace high learning," Mike Flanagan, state superintendent of public instruction in Michigan said. According to the initiative, standards will require schools to develop or enhance their curriculum in mathematics, reading and writing, which Michigan districts are already doing. Beginning in 2014, the Michigan Merit Exam and …
Wesley A. Peurasaari
1:14 am on Friday, April 19, 2013
I Agree, Please, No Common Core!!! more ›