Warriors Against all things connected to Common Core, this weekend’s news will give you an update on CCR, ‘college and career readiness’. We know there are ‘CCR Standards’. What else can we learn?
What defines ‘college, career readiness’?
If we look at the pro CCSS parameters, CCR (college, career readiness) is:
1) “With the growing complexity of the world and the increasing demands of the 21st-century workforce, there is little question that all students should graduate from high school fully prepared for college AND careers. From an academic perspective, college and career readiness means that a high school graduate has the knowledge and skills in English and mathematics necessary to qualify for and succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing post-secondary coursework without the need for remediation.”
(*Note: this is from Achieve,Inc. To see the rest of their CCR views, http://www.achieve.org/college-and-career-readiness)
2) From the U.S. Dept. of Ed, the push to re-authorize the old Elementary and Secondary Education Act via HR5(Student Success Act) or S1177(Every Child Achieves Act) will most assuredly give us CCR.
“Rigorous College- and Career-Ready Standards. Following the lead of the nation’s governors and state education leaders, the administration is calling on all states to adopt state developed standards in English language arts and mathematics that build toward college and career readiness by the time students graduate from high school, and high-quality statewide assessments aligned with these standards. States may choose to: either upgrade their existing standards, working with their four-year public university system to certify that mastery of the standards ensures that a student will not need to take remedial coursework upon admission to a postsecondary institution in the system; or work with other states to create state-developed common standards that build toward college and career readiness.” To read the rest of the document promoting CCSS: college-career
(*Note: the real strings that will bind us to the CCSS Machine’s planned agenda will be in the sections detailing support, accountability, and assessing.)
3) The College and Career Readiness Center (which is part of AIR, Inc. and funded by the U.S. Dept. of Ed), is 100% devoted to not only CCR, but Career Tech Ed, outcome based education, and competency based education for not only preK to grad school, but teachers and leaders, too. Here is their document made for all those SEAs (State Education Agents (which means any group, organization, or individual your state has authorized to be involved in education) has access to. Why would they need this guide? It helps them plan alignment to the ‘standards and assessments!! Measurement Practice Guide Chapter 1_0 To see more about the CCR Center, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/02/11/wybi-jhuy/
These are helpful, but is there even more we can learn about the CCR Standards?!
The Education Delivery Institute:
Website, https://www.deliveryinstitute.org/delivery-resources/college-career-readiness-standards
Included in this non-profit institute are the P-20 data mining, the usual main financial backers of Common Core, the SBAC and PARCC assessments, and more. (see: https://www.deliveryinstitute.org/our-partners) Sitting on the Board of Directors is Sir Michael Barber of Pearson Publishing. He is also the founder of the Ed Delivery Institute (see the origins, https://www.deliveryinstitute.org/origins-delivery)!!
https://youtu.be/z3FsjEOhHHM
Knowing who has funded CCSS, is a member of this Institute, AND is guiding states toward THEIR agenda, is it any wonder our states seem to be deaf to our citizens?!
Watch this one from Ed Delivery and you will hear that STEM jobs being filled is the goal.
https://youtu.be/w3tXEOsD_6o
Why is the fact STEM is the goal of college, career readiness so relevant? One of my very first published blog articles shared with you the 2010 Presidential Report, “Prepare & Inspire K-12 Education in STEM for America’s Future”. Who wrote this report? PCAST, President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. “The goal of the PDF[report} was a then, new strategy for improving K-12 education. Notice in the introduction of the report these key items: the 2 prongs and 5 overarching priorities therein to transforming education (we must prepare students & inspire those motivated to the point of STEM for life) via a) federal leadership in education must be improved; b) federal government supportive of a common baseline via the new state led initiative; c) recruit more STEM teachers; d) STEM outside schools; e) federal government support the states and schools as they transform. Here’s the closing statement the co-chairs of the PCAST made, “We are confident that the report provides a workable, evidence-based roadmap for achieving the vision you have so boldly articulated for STEM education in America,” There is much more about PCAST and this report, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/09/02/from-the-files-pcast-stem-and-common-core/
If you’d like more information on how CCR your state is, check out my previously published college, career readiness consortium:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/11/18/ftf-tuesday-ccrec-college-and-career-readiness-evaluation-consortium/
When I first wrote about the CCR Center, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/11/13/tech-thursday-collegecareer-readiness-success-and-common-core/
US EDI and Sir Michael Barber are also responsible for the implementation of Cimmon Core and Barber’s DELIVEROLOGY platform mandates implemting reform so it is irreversible. BTW…Barber and Coleman are buddies. I personally believe Barber is the real brains behind Coleman. Barber’s DELIVEROLOGY is why we see EVERYTHING (books, tests, curriculum, GED, SAT, PSAT, AP, ACT and PISA) aligned to standards (Common Core). It is now at the point of no return and all by design. Future college tuition aid, entrance and employment will depend on whether you were educated under the federal indoctrination program. No CC? No college and no career.
Mooregrits I do not see a blog on their website. Do you have a link??
I was able to find their “news” page, similar to a blog: https://www.deliveryinstitute.org/news. Twitter: @EdDelivery