ESSA and NY State’s “Next Generation Learning Standards” Plan

Have teachers been sufficiently trained in the new curriculum to implement all it’s parts successfully? I don’t think so.

Once again, New York is giving teachers no chance to escape the dreaded “Ineffective” rating, and giving parents and the youngest children entering the school system a lifetime of heartache.

Why can’t New York State Education Department policy makers set up a well-planned strategy based upon valid research into the unique ways children learn, instead of buying the next set of books handed to them by a political ally.

This makes no sense.

Betsy Combier