An Oakland Schools math education consultant talks with school board members about changes in content standards and assessments.
While new Common Core standards won't be fully implemented in Farmington Schools until the 2015-2016 school year, educators will be using what they have learned in this school year's lessons. Adopted by the Michigan Dept. of Education in 2010, the new set of rigorous standards is shared by 45 states, Oakland Schools Mathematics Education Consultant Valerie Mills told Farmington School Board members Tuesday. "This change that's coming the potential to be the most dramatic and the most productive change we've seen in education since the Dewey Decimal system started organizing books in libraries," Mills said. Common Core content standards focus on the expectations for what students should know at their grade level, without directing how they…
In 2011, the district struggled with the demolition of four buildings, a lawsuit, tense union negotiations and tougher academic standards.
It seemed like the hits just kept on coming for Farmington Public Schools in 2011. From a controversial building sale to unsettling news about academic performance under new state standards, officials often faced angry parents at board meetings. But the district also celebrated some significant milestones. Here are a few of the year's biggest stories: A controversial vote in January authorized the solicitation of bids for the demolition of elementary buildings closed in 2010, and Fairview Early Childhood Center, closed in 2006. Wooddale, Flanders and William Grace Elementary and Fairview Early Childhood Center were eventually leveled, but officials in January received an offer for Eagle Elementary, from the Islamic Cultural Association (…
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Wesley A. Peurasaari
1:14 am on Friday, April 19, 2013
I Agree, Please, No Common Core!!! more ›