Dr. Confrey Appointed to Common Core Standards Initiative Committee
The National Governor’s Association (NGA) and Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) announced today that Dr. Jere Confrey, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor in Mathematics Education and Senior Research Fellow at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, and 24 other national experts would comprise the Common Core Standards Initiative Validation Committee.
This committee will immediately be tasked with review and verification of the standards development process and the resulting evidence-based college-and-career-readiness standards. The standards are intended to be research and evidence based, aligned with college and workforce training program expectations, reflective of rigorous content and skills, and internationally benchmarked.
The committee will perform three main functions:
- Review the process used to develop the college- and career-readiness standards and to recommend improvements in that process. These recommendations will be used to inform the K-12 development process.
- Validate the sufficiency of the evidence supporting each college-and-career-readiness standard. Each member is asked to determine whether each standard has sufficient evidence to warrant its inclusion.
- Add any standard that is not now included in the Common Core that they feel should be included and provide the following evidence to support its inclusion: evidence that the standard is an essential to college and career success and evidence that the standard is internationally comparable.
Each of the experts on the committee was nominated by states and national organizations, with a group of six governors and six chief state school officers in the participating states selecting the final committee membership.
“Developing a set of shared Common Core State Standards is an essential element in coordinating and intensifying our determination to prepare all students to participate successfully in a global economy based on innovation in science and technology, said Dr. Confrey. “Rigorous validation is critical to their acceptance and success.”
Today we live in a world without borders. To maintain America’s competitive edge, we need all of our students to be well prepared and ready to compete with not only their American peers, but with students from around the world. The establishment of common standards is a first step toward bringing about real and meaningful transformation of our education system toward the ultimate goal of preparing ALL children for college, work, and success in the global economy.
There are now 51 states and territories that have signed on to the initiative.
For more information on the Common Core State Standards Initiative and to comment on the draft college-and-career-readiness standards, please visit the Common Core State Standards Initiative's website.