[RUME] National Education Standards for the United States? ERRATUM

[Richard Hake]

My previous post contained an incorrect URL. SORRY!  Here's another try.

Some subscribers to RUME may be interested in a recent post "National 
Education Standards for the United States?" [Hake (2009)].

The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT:  The "Common Core State Standards Initiative" (CCSSI), 
aimed at developing National Education Standards (NES) for the U.S., 
has recently been widely reported in the media, the Academic 
Discussion List sphere (ADLsphere), and the Blogosphere. Thus far, 
the reaction to the CCSSI & NES has been mostly negative [e.g., 
Brady, Clement, Haim, Horton, Ohanian, Marshak, Meier, Taylor, and 
Urner; with a few positive exceptions [Derbes, Korsunsky, 
Weingarten]. Adding to the positive are Schmidt, Houang, & Shakrani 
(2009) who, in a report "International Lessons About National 
Standards": (a) make  the case for NES in the U.S., based on an 
in-depth study of NES in 10 other countries: Russia, France, Brazil, 
Canada, China, India, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, and the 
Netherlands, which "are making significant improvement in mathematics 
and science achievement and operate along a spectrum of national and 
local educational control"; (b) distill from their international 
study one important lesson: "It's NOT true that national standards 
portend loss of local control," plus four recommendations for the 
U.S. national standards effort; and (c) conclude: "We know what the 
standards of top-achieving nations look like. They are focused, 
coherent, and rigorous. And they're that way because the systems 
themselves are focused and coherent. It's time to get on the national 
standards bandwagon. . . . . The process of establishing national 
standards will surely require time, patience, and a great deal of 
compromise. But we postpone the inevitable at our peril."
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To access the complete 37 kB post, please click on 
<http://tinyurl.com/mjrvla> .

Q. Why should subscribers to RUME, who are primarily concerned with 
undergraduate education, be concerned with the public schools?

A. Because the public schools furnish most of the students who enter 
undergraduate math courses.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<rrhake at earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>

REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2009. "National Education Standards for the United 
States?" online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at 
<http://tinyurl.com/mjrvla> . Post of 9 Jun 2009 14:44:42-0700 to 
AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract is online at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/national-education-standards-for-united.html> 
with a provision for comments.