Curriculum shift planned in Ridgewood schools
Tuesday May 28, 2013, 11:22 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
Beginning next fall, district students will experience a language arts curricular shift.
There will be a movement toward more grammar education, an increased emphasis on the introduction of more non-fiction texts into students’ overall coursework, and an earlier focus on typewriting skills in elementary school.
With a five-year plan, a team of K-12 administrators and teachers is addressing a dip in sixth grade students’ language arts proficiency test scores, which lag behind the scores of some sixth-graders in other districts that are socioeconomically similar to Ridgewood.
The plan will also implement both state recommendations and local feedback from parents, students and professionals with careers that require extensive language arts skills.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/209175781_Curriculum_shift_planned_in_Ridgewood_schools.html
This intentionally blandly-written story is apparently our only warning signal that Common Core Curriculum is coming to New Jersey in general, and to Ridgewood in particular. Common Core is nothing less than the fulfillment of latter-day k-12 Curriculum Development Professional and sixties radical/domestic terrorist Bill Ayers’ fondest wish. Local control of academic curricula will now fade into history. Our Assistant Superintendent in Charge of Curriculum Development Ms. Regina Botsford can retire happily knowing that she and her radical colleagues have done permanent damage to the educational prospects of millions of young students, and by extension to the future of the United States, born in racist sin and kept alive solely by wasting the world’s precious resources on an unworthy populace. Ridgewood’s students deserved better, but ultimately were mere pawns in a political struggle that had to be won by any means necessary. The true tragedy of all this is the lack of any effective fight given by those few individuals of good will who were in a position to sound the alarm but fell silent to protect their sinecures or future job prospects.