Ridgewood School District set to meet national standards
Wednesday October 9, 2013, 10:23 AM
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
The Ridgewood News
The Ridgewood school district’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) – a set of standards for English and math that are being integrated into most public school curriculums across the country – is nearly complete.
A few district educators have publicly praised the CCSS, but one Ridgewood resident expressed serious concerns at a recent Board of Education (BOE) meeting.
According to Regina Botsford, recently retired Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, CCSS implementation began in Ridgewood several years ago, with a five-year plan for math courses that included CCSS alignments.
This year, some revisions were made to better align language arts courses with the CCSS, but this is “the last year that we’re making changes,” noted Botsford, who left the district last month.
Final curricular changes in the language arts were approved at BOE meeting in August. Whether students will notice a big difference or not, however, remains to be seen.
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Common Core = Teaching to mediocrity.
Ridgewood runs to embrace it.
RW used to blaze trails with innovation and educational excellence. Now they rest on the “tradition” of excellence and embrace the mediocrity of the pack.
what happened to the tradition of excellence ?
Regina Botsford
…with blind support from lazy uninformed parents who bought into the concept that picking Ridgewood just based on its past superior education was enough to ensure future educational excellence.
Or as stated by the great poet Bruce Springsteen:
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”