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What Will Common Core State Standards Mean for Your Child?
What
Will Common Core
State Standards Mean for
Your Child?
The Millburn Short Hills Special Education
Committee (M-SPEC) and Preserve Our Schools will be co-hosting a
community program on Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 10 am for parents and community
members about the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) and the new
PARCC testing to begin full implementation in the 2014/15 school year. This program will be held at the Millburn
Free Public Library with a special guest speaker, Carolee Adams. The library address is 200 Glen Avenue, Millburn,
New Jersey.
Over the last year, Carolee
Adams has spoken over thirty times expressing concerns about Common Core/PARCC
(the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career - the
testing companion of Common Core Standards) at rallies, meetings, on radio and
TV, State and local Boards of Education, State and County legislative hearings,
and a national conference in the Washington, DC area. New Jersey now has bi-partisan Bills in both
the Senate and Assembly delaying its implementation; assessing its cost;
comparing current state standards to Common Core; prohibiting the sharing of private
student information without parental consent, encouraging statewide public
hearings, and more.
At this community program,
Carolee will provide an engaging discussion for
parents and taxpayers on the emerging issues regarding Common Core State Standards
Initiative (CCSSI) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College
and Careers (PARCC) that include not only these
nationalized standards and assessments, but also data collection methods and
risks of high-stakes testing. There will be ample time
for a Q & A session. Carolee will
clarify for parents what this controversial education reform movement means for
all children and their individual educational needs.
In addition to Carolee’s presentation, Nina Peckman, a staff attorney with Advocates
for Children of New Jersey (a non-profit organization whose mission is to identify children's needs
through research, policy and legal analysis and strategic communications, to
raise awareness of those needs and to work with elected officials and other
decision-makers to enact effective responses) will be in available to provide
guidance and answer questions related to students with disabilities.
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