The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following press release:
MDE Launches Online Public Comment Forum for Mississippi College- and Career-Ready Standards
JACKSON, Miss. –
In keeping with the
periodic review process of academic standards, the Mississippi
Department of Education announced today that it is seeking specific
input on the English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics standards
through a process called the Mississippi College- and Career-Ready
Standards (MCCRS) Feedback Forum.
The MCCRS Feedback Forum, which will be open June 15-Sept. 15,
is designed to encourage stakeholders to read the standards and either
submit comments in support of the standards or provide specific,
actionable feedback on any particular standards of concern. This
process provides a venue for stakeholders to make recommendations on
improving or building upon standards that have been adopted.
The
process is not intended to serve as a referendum on the standards. Only
comments that can become actionable items will be considered.
“While
the public had opportunity to provide feedback during the standards
adoption process, the Mississippi College- and Career-Ready Standards
Feedback
Forum will give teachers, parents and others who are interested the
chance to perfect the standards based on their experiences over the last
several years,” said Dr. Carey Wright, state superintendent of
education.
Comments
provided about specific standards will be evaluated by a team of
Mississippi educators, content specialists in Math and ELA, as well as
higher
education representatives. The team will then make recommendations on
any changes to the Mississippi Board of Education for its consideration
in December.
Any adjustments approved by the Board won’t be effective until the 2016-2017 school year.
“This
process does exactly what the Board had requested: provide a venue for
any stakeholders to provide recommendations on how we can build upon
the current rigorous standards we have as we continue to move the state
forward with high standards of learning,” said Dr. John Kelly, Board
chairman.
How the Feedback Forum works:
Participants
are required to provide some general information on whether they are
commenting as parents, educators or business and industry professionals.
This demographic information is important to informing the Board and
the public about which stakeholders participated in the forum. No
personally identifiable information will be requested. However, there is
an option to leave email addresses for further contact.
Standards
are searchable by grade level and subject. After reading the
grade-level standard, the participant will be provided several options
for
input, including whether he/she likes the standard or doesn’t like the
standard. If someone wishes to change the actual wording of the
standard, he/she will have that option in an editable textbox
prepopulated with the standard as it is currently written,
or they may clear the standard and write the standard from scratch.
The public may leave and come back to the Feedback Forum at any time between June 15 and September 15, 2015,
but participants will only be able to
submit suggestions on a particular standard once per electronic device.
At the end of the public comment period, all comments will be published
online.
2 comments:
Yeah, I've got your feedback right here!
MDE has never, nor do they now, wanted input on anything. That's like claiming Hillary Clinton would like to receive your suggestions as to how to proceed with her candidacy.
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