Common Core State Standards
Every Child
Every School
Every Community
College and Career
Ready
Indiana’s College and
Career Ready Standards
Why?
 We care about our kids
 New beginning for our kids
 They move on with their lives
 They can obtain successful livelihoods in
jobs, apprenticeships, military
 So they can go on to college
 They begin their lives as adults
But in reality.....
What does that pretty little
piece of paper mean?
Not Much….
 Varies from state to state
What should it mean?
College and Career
Readiness
The statistics are staggering.
30% of high school graduates who
take the Armed Forces Qualification
Test do not pass it.
http://d15h7vkr8e4okv.cloudfront.net/NATEE1109.pdf
For students going to
Indiana community colleges:
$35 Million is spent on remediation.
Of those students receiving remediation,
fewer than 25% will earn any degree.
Approximately $27 million
http://www.in.gov/che/files/CCA_Smarter_Choices_Faster_Completion_Summary.pdf and
http://www.in.gov/che/files/Dashboard_13009.pdf
In Indiana, the lack of College and Career
Readiness has led to a skills gap.
2.4 unfilled STEM jobs for every
unemployed Hoosier.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/aug/28/no-headline--workforce/?print=1
In 2012, 54% of jobs in Indiana were classified as
“middle-skill.”
LPN
Welders
Electrician
Truck Drivers
Only 47% of Hoosiers have the skills and
credentials for these positions.
13% of these jobs will remain unfilled.
http://www.nationalskillscoalition.org/assets/reports-/2013-09_indianas-forgotten.pdf
5% of all jobs in Indiana are unfilled because
of a lack of qualified workers to fill them.
Nationally, it is 9%.
Bureau of labor statistics
Another inherent problem with current standards
Mobility
• 15-20% of American school children move in any
given year.
• Students living below the poverty line are twice
as likely to move as those living above it.
• In 2012 16% of high school students in Indiana,
roughly 1 in 6, switched high schools during the
course of the school year.
http://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/accountability/2012-mobility-report-school.xlsx
http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/student-mobility/
Mobility (continued)
•
1 in 6 third graders has attended 3 or more
schools.
• These children receive very little protection
under No Child Left Behind.
• Military students typically attend 6-9 schools
between Kindergarten and 12th grade.
http://www.stcloudstate.edu/tpi/initiative/documents/preparation/School%20Mobility%2
0and%20Student%20Achievement%20in%20an%20Urban%20Setting.pdf
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1140.pdf
http://hechingerreport.org/content/interactive-academic-standards-are-all-over-the-map_3020
4 year state colleges
Community colleges
Dept. of Defense
Chambers of Commerce
Industry
Skilled labor
Certification programs
Formal apprenticeship programs
Businesses who hire workers out
of high school
What do you expect a high
school graduate to know and
be able to do on the day they
graduate?
12th
11th
7th
3rd
K
The Standards
Previous
Taught how to do
things
Taught students to
memorize
Where
Indiana CCR
Critical Thinking skills
Why it works
How to Problem Solve
Analyze
Synthesize
When
Examples in Math
6 + 8 = 14 = 10 + 4
19 x 19 = 20 x 20 - 20 - 19
LCM
?
http://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Lessons_and_Resources/figurethis/
learning_math.pdf
a/5
a/8
We are graduating students from high school
that can add fractions, but have no
understanding about what a fraction is.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/everybody-is-stupid-except-you/201211/us-mathachievement-how-bad-is-it
http://statlit.org/pdf/2009CarnegieFoundation-Developmental-Math-CC-StudentsUnderstand.pdf
Math Cross walk
IAS 2014
IAS 2000
IAS College and Career Ready Standard 2014
English Language Arts
80% of all adult reading is devoted to
expository or nonfiction text.
http://www.learninga-z.com/commoncore/informational-text.html
Why?
IAS CCR 2014
IAS 2006
5.RN.3.3: Analyze multiple accounts of the
same event or topic, noting important
similarities and differences in the
perspectives the accounts represent.
5.RN.4.1: Explain how an author uses
reasons evidence to support claims in a
text, identifying which reasons and
evidence support which claims.
5.RN.4.2: Combine information from
several texts or digital sources on the same
topic in order to demonstrate knowledge
about the subject.
5.2.3 Recognize main ideas presented in texts,
identifying and assessing evidence that supports
those ideas.
5.2.5 Distinguish among facts, supported
inferences, evidence, and opinions in text.
Example: Identify facts and opinions in a
newspaper editorial or editorial page writer’s
column.
Rigor
College and
Career Readiness
For more information contact:
Lee Ann J. Kendrick, M.Ed.
Regional Advocacy Specialist
571-329-9365
lkendrick@pta.org
PTA.org