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Michigan High School Content Standards Approved
MIRS, April 11, 2006
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Following adoption of curriculum content standards and expectations for kindergarten through eighth grade two years ago, the state Board of Education today adopted high school content standards and expectations in English, language arts and math.

The board approved a draft version last November. Today's final approval follows a review by educators, professional organizations and community members.

The standards and expectations, designed to guide a "rigorous" high school experience are a culmination of work by the Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and the Achieve, Inc. in an effort to align the expectations with national standards and assessments.

The English Language Arts expectation portion contains four "strands" dealing with writing, speaking and expressing; reading listening and viewing; literature and culture; and language. Each of the strands contains multiple standards.

The mathematics area also contains four “strands” - quantitative literacy; algebra and functions; geometry and trigonometry; and statistics and probability.

Dr. Yvonne Caamal CANUL, of the Department of Education's Office of School Improvement, said a public rollout of the content standards and expectations would begin later this month with dissemination of all the content standards in August.

Dr. Joan Ferrini-MUNDY, of Michigan State University, who chaired the mathematics work group, told board members the "power of the document is not the paper but in conversations that will be held at the local level."

Although the board adopted the content standards and expectations today, Dr. Rebecca SIPE, of Eastern Michigan University, who chaired the English and Language Arts work group, said she hoped they were doing so with the expectation that discussions over what the core standards and extended standards are will continue.

Board member Elizabeth BAUER expressed concern over some of the changes that were made from the draft to the final document.

"There is a lot of flutter that the creativity of teaching is going away," Bauer said. "I don't want us to be a mirror of national standards."

Board member John AUSTIN said everything that Achieve wanted taken out wasn't thrown out. "This is a tremendous, tremendous piece of work," Austin said. "We are going to raise the bar."

Board President Kathleen STRAUS said she was pleased the document goes beyond standardization. "We shouldn't lose sight that our creativity is the envy of the world, that we are going beyond national standards tests."

    

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