Posted on 06/04/2009 6:41:15 PM PDT by markomalley
Gov. Sarah Palin has opted out of an effort to develop national education standards for reading and math curricula, a decision that has riled some but satisfied other Alaskan education officials, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
Forty-six states have agreed to help create the Common Core State Standards Initiative, an effort to allow states to compare their students' academic progress at each grade level using a single rubric. Alaska joins Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas on the shortlist of states that have bowed out of the attempt to form what many believe education in the United States has lacked for too long: a common denominator.
Carol Comeau, superintendent of the Anchorage School District, said she was disappointed in Palin's decision. Alaska's pupils have a right to know how they measure up against their peers in other parts of the country, Comeau said. The Anchorage School District serves nearly half of Alaska's 120,000 public school students.
Others say Palin is right to question whether national standards will work in Alaska's unique public school system, one where students frequently learn in small, isolated, mixed-grade classrooms. State Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux said Alaska can always adopt the standards after other states write them. Participating in the process now would indicate implied consent to adopt the standards later, he said.
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Agreed. This kind of thing puts the decisions out of the reach of the people of each state, and thus out of the market system.
What they want is the control itself.
They are control freaks. And they are getting what they want.
I agree with Governor Palin on this.
Palin/Sanford 2012
WE NEED NEW BLOOD! SARAH WHERE ARE YOU?
WE NEED NEW BLOOD! SARAH WHERE ARE YOU?
Sarah we need someone with a backbone like yours. You were the only one to give last years presidential run any vim.
We need new blood. The people running the republican party are not interested in winning but want to be more like the socialists.
We need new blood. We need and want you.
Can you fight the ‘old boy network’ down here like you did in Alaska?
I hope so.
NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD
Sarah we need someone with a backbone like yours. You were the only one to give last years presidential run any vim.
We need new blood. The people running the republican party are not interested in winning but want to be more like the socialists.
We need new blood. We need and want you.
Can you fight the ‘old boy network’ down here like you did in Alaska?
I hope so.
NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD NEW BLOOD
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