From Patsy.Dunton at maine.gov Wed Jul 1 14:28:42 2009
From: Patsy.Dunton at maine.gov (Dunton, Patsy)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:28:42 -0400
Subject: [Englishlanguagearts] FW: COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
WORK GROUP AND FEEDBACK GROUP ANNOUNCED
Message-ID: <32E5C6B0B949584D9B6168C5F727916B047BCBEF@SOM-TEAQASMAIL1.som.w2k.state.me.us>
In case you have been wondering who works on the National Standards,
here is a recent announcement from NGA and CCSSO. The first draft of
the standards is due to be released in mid-July and we will be sure to
let you know as soon as we can where to find that document.
Patsy Dunton
English Language Arts Specialist
Grades 6 - diploma
Midcoast Regional Representative
Maine Department of Education
624-6625
________________________________
From: Common Standards [mailto:CommonStandards at ccsso.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:12 PM
To: commonstatestandards
Subject: COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT WORK GROUP AND FEEDBACK
GROUP ANNOUNCED
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jodi
Omear (NGA), 202-624-5346
July 1, 2009
Kara Schlosser (CCSSO), 202-336-7034
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT WORK GROUP AND FEEDBACK GROUP
ANNOUNCED
NGA Center, CCSSO Unveil New Web site; Outline Process to Develop Common
English-language Arts and Mathematics Standards
WASHINGTON-The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
(NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
today announced the names of the experts serving on the Common Core
State Standards Development Work Group and Feedback Group and provided
more detailed information on the college and career ready standards
development process. The college and career ready standards are expected
to be ready for comment July 2009. The K-12 standards work is expected
to be completed in December 2009. The two groups also unveiled a new Web
site at www.corestandards.org. This Web site is designed to provide
information as the process continues.
Forty-nine states and territories have joined the Common Core State
Standards Initiative. The initiative is being jointly led by the NGA
Center and CCSSO in partnership with Achieve, Inc, ACT and the College
Board. It builds directly on recent efforts of leading organizations and
states that have focused on developing college-and career-ready
standards and ensures that these standards can be internationally
benchmarked to top-performing countries around the world.
"This initiative is a significant and historic opportunity for states to
collectively accelerate and drive education reform so that all children
graduate from high school ready for college, work and success in the
global economy," said Dane Linn, director of the NGA Center's Education
Division. "These standards will be research and evidence-based,
internationally benchmarked, aligned with college and work expectations
and include rigorous content and skills."
"It is time for us as states to challenge the education system and
finally answer the question, "What will it take for every child to be
successful?" stated Gene Wilhoit, executive director of CCSSO. "Fewer,
clearer, and higher standards will help us get there."
The Standards Development Work Group is currently engaged in determining
and writing the college and career readiness standards in
English-language arts and mathematics. This group is composed of content
experts from Achieve, Inc., ACT, and the College Board. This group will
be expanded later in the year to include additional experts to develop
the standards for grades K-12 in English language arts and mathematics.
Additionally, CCSSO and the NGA Center have selected an independent
facilitator and an independent writer as well as resource advisors to
support each content area work group throughout the standards
development process. The Work Group's deliberations will be confidential
throughout the process. States and national education organizations will
have an opportunity to review and provide evidence-based feedback on the
draft documents throughout the process.
The members of the mathematics Work Group are:
* Sara Clough, Director, Elementary and Secondary School Programs,
Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.
* Phil Daro, Senior Fellow, America's Choice
* Susan K. Eddins, Educational Consultant, Illinois Mathematics
and Science Academy (Retired)
* Kaye Forgione, Senior Associate and Team Leader for Mathematics,
Achieve
* John Kraman, Associate Director, Research, Achieve
* Marci Ladd, Mathematics Consultant, The College Board & Senior
Manager and Mathematics Content Lead, Academic Benchmarks
* William McCallum, University Distinguished Professor and Head,
Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona &Mathematics
Consultant, Achieve
* Sherri Miller, Assistant Vice President, Educational Planning
and Assessment System (EPAS) Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.
* Ken Mullen, Senior Program Development Associate-Mathematics,
Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education
Division, ACT, Inc.
* Robin O'Callaghan, Senior Director, Mathematics, Research and
Development, The College Board
* Andrew Schwartz, Assessment Manager, Research and Development,
The College Board
* Laura McGiffert Slover, Vice President, Content and Policy
Research, Achieve
* Douglas Sovde, Senior Associate, Mathematics, Achieve
* Natasha Vasavada, Senior Director, Standards and Curriculum
Alignment Services, Research and Development, The College Board
* Jason Zimba, Faculty Member, Physics, Mathematics, and the
Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College and
Cofounder, Student Achievement Partners
Members of the English-language Arts Work Group are:
* Sara Clough, Director, Elementary and Secondary School Programs,
Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.
* David Coleman, Founder, Student Achievement Partners
* Sally Hampton, Senior Fellow for Literacy, America's Choice
* Joel Harris, Director, English Language Arts Curriculum and
Standards, Research and Development, The College Board
* Beth Hart, Senior Assessment Specialist, Research and
Development, The College Board
* John Kraman, Associate Director, Research, Achieve
* Laura McGiffert Slover, Vice President, Content and Policy
Research, Achieve
* Nina Metzner, Senior Test Development Associate-Language Arts,
Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education
Division, ACT, Inc.
* Sherri Miller, Assistant Vice President, Educational Planning
and Assessment System (EPAS) Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.
* Sandy Murphy, Professor Emeritus, University of California -
Davis
* Jim Patterson, Senior Program Development Associate-Language
Arts, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education
Division, ACT, Inc.
* Sue Pimentel, Co-Founder, StandardsWork; English Language Arts
Consultant, Achieve
* Natasha Vasavada, Senior Director, Standards and Curriculum
Alignment Services, Research and Development, The College Board
* Martha Vockley, Principal and Founder, VockleyLang, LLC
Also, as a step in the standards development process, the NGA Center and
CCSSO are overseeing the work of a Feedback Group. The role of this
Feedback Group is to provide information backed by research to inform
the standards development process by offering expert input on draft
documents. Final decisions regarding the common core standards document
will be made by the Standards Development Work Group. The Feedback Group
will play an advisory role, not a decision-making role in the process.
Members of the mathematics Feedback Group are:
* George Andrews, The Pennsylvania State University, Evan Pugh
Professor of Mathematics
* Hyman Bass, University of Michigan, Samuel Eilenberg
Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics & Mathematics
Education
* David Bressoud, Macalester College, DeWitt Wallace Professor of
Mathematics & President, Mathematical Association of America
* John Dossey, Illinois State University, Distinguished University
Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
* Scott Eddins, Tennessee Department of Education, Mathematics
Coordinator & President, Association of State Supervisors of Mathematics
(ASSM)
* Brian Gong, The National Center for the Improvement of
Educational Assessment, Executive Director
* Roger Howe, Yale University, Professor of Mathematics
* Henry S. Kepner, Jr., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Professor, Curriculum & Instruction and Mathematical Sciences
* Suzanne Lane, University of Pittsburgh, Professor in the
Research Methodology Program, School of Education
* Robert Linn, University of Colorado, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus, and Co-Director of the National Center for Research on
Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST)
* Jim Milgram, Stanford University, Professor of Mathematics,
Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
* Fabio Milner, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences,
Arizona State University, Director, Mathematics for Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
* Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo, Associate Dean, College of Science and Mathematics and Professor
of Statistics
* Nora Ramirez, TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, President
* William Schmidt, Michigan State University, College of
Education, University Distinguished Professor
* Uri Treisman, University of Texas, Professor of Mathematics and
Public Affairs & Executive Director, Charles A. Dana Center
* Vern Williams, Mathematics Teacher, HW Longfellow Middle School,
Fairfax County, Virginia Public Schools
* W. Stephen Wilson, Johns Hopkins University, Professor of
Mathematics
Members of the English-language Arts Feedback Group are:
* Peter Afflerbach, University of Maryland, Professor
* Arthur Applebee, University at Albany, State University of New
York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor & Chair, Department of Educational
Theory & Practice, School of Education
* Mark Bauerlein, Emory University, Professor of English
* Mary Bozik, University of Northern Iowa, Professor,
Communication Studies
* Don Deshler, University of Kansas, Williamson Family
Distinguished Professor of Special Education & Director, Center for
Research on Learning
* Checker Finn, Fordham Institute Senior Fellow, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University & President, Thomas B. Fordham
Institute
* Brian Gong, The National Center for the Improvement of
Educational Assessment, Executive Director
* Carol Jago, University of California - Los Angeles, National
Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) President-Elect, California
Reading and Literature Project
* Jeanneine Jones, University of North Carolina - Charlotte,
Professor
* Michael Kamil, Stanford University, Professor, School of
Education
* Suzanne Lane, University of Pittsburgh, Professor in the
Research Methodology Program, School of Education
* Carol Lee, Northwestern University, Professor of Education and
Social Policy
* Robert Linn, University of Colorado, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus, and Co-Director of the National Center for Research on
Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST)
* Dolores Perin, Columbia University, Associate Professor of
Psychology and Education
* Tim Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor,
Urban Education
* Catherine Snow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Patricia
Albjerg Graham Professor
* Doranna Tindle, Friendship Public Charter Schools, Instructional
Performance Coach
The final step in the development of these standards is the creation of
an expert Validation Committee comprised of national and international
experts on standards. This group will review the process and substance
of the common core state standards to ensure they are research and
evidence-based and will validate state adoption on the common core
standards. Members of the committee will be selected by governors and
chiefs of the participating states; nominations are forthcoming.
Additionally, the NGA Center and CCSSO have formed a National Policy
Forum of education experts to share ideas, gather input and inform the
common core state standards initiative. This forum is intended as a way
to establish a shared understanding of the scope and elements of the
common core state standards initiative and coordinate implementation and
adoption.
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Founded in 1908, the National Governors Association (NGA) is the
collective voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington, D.C.'s
most respected public policy organizations. Its members are the
governors of the 50 states, three territories and two commonwealths. NGA
provides governors and their senior staff members with services that
range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the
Administration on key federal issues to developing and implementing
innovative solutions to public policy challenges through the NGA Center
for Best Practices. For more information, visit www.nga.org
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The Council of Chief State School Officers
(CCSSO) is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public
officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in
the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense
Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions. CCSSO
provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major
educational issues. The Council seeks member consensus on major
educational issues and expresses their views to civic and professional
organizations, federal agencies, Congress, and the public. www.ccsso.org
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