The Learning Standards (Common Core) Task Force strives to facilitate
opportunities for P-12 and higher education to discuss, analyze, and identify today's educational goals. The Learning Standards (Common Core) task force will create
an infrastructure for ongoing dialogue between secondary and
post-secondary faculty, school counselors, college admissions staff and
business professionals regarding what "college and career ready" means at
different grade levels. Additionally, creating and/or better aligning various student
outcomes, assessment principles, and mechanisms can be accomplished.
Goals
Developing and incentivizing the work of faculty
councils (with secondary and post-secondary instructors), which will
subsequently interface with counselors, admissions staff and business
professionals
Encouraging college/university presidents and
deans to commit to full participation, which will provide some of the incentive
for post-secondary and then secondary school faculty to come into the process
Creating a template or set of guiding principles
for effectively building these elements into partnerships (in accord with the
Partnerships task force)
Articulating and advocating for how this
infrastructure can mitigate against state and other accrediting bodies
pre-defining standards and their assessment
