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Michigan Senate Bill 826:
Replace Common Core with pre-2011 Massachusetts Standards
Sandra Stotsky, et al.
EditorÕs note:
Interested in academic
standards and assessments proven to raise student achievement? You wonÕt get
that from the Common Core Standards and their associated consortium tests,
PARCC and SBAC. Despite the boisterous hype of higher, deeper, richer, more
rigorous, and so on, there exists no valid evidence to support their claims of
higher quality, achievement, or college readiness.
There is a set of
state standards and assessments, however, proven through actual experience to
have raised academic achievement for students at all levels and in all
curricular pathways: those used in Massachusetts from 2000 to 2011. So, why not
use them?
Such a proposal was
recently proposed, and passed, by the Michigan Senate Education Policy
Committee. Here, we provide links to Sandra StotskyÕs testimony before that
committee, along with other relevant links:
Michigan Senator Patrick ColbeckÕs announcement
Dr. Sandra Stotsky On "Live With Renk", News Talk Radio WBCK [audio file]
Bill,
bill summary, & current progress of Michigan Senate Bill 0826 (2016)
All testimonies (from the drop-down menus, choose ÒEducationÓ from Senate Committees and ÒApr 26, 2016Ó from Available Meeting Dates
Audio files (testimony on Bill 0826 starts at about 25:30; you can adjust the volume by clicking on the symbol at right)
Citation: Stotsky, S, et al. (2016). Michigan Senate Bill 826: Replace Common Core with pre-2011 Massachusetts Standards. Nonpartisan Education Review/Resources, 12(2). http://nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Resources/MichiganBill.pdf
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