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Sunday, October 6, 2013 The Bakersfield Voice
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‘Common Core Standards’ asks students to aim high
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f you are in education, you most certainly have been inundated with the implementation of the Common Core Standards. For those of you outside of the education loop, here is a brief synopsis to help you understand what it all means. Study after study has proven that our students lack college and career readiness. Many start their freshman year of college with a remedial English or math class. With each state previously having its own set of unique standards, it created a large gap in student expectations, as well as achievement. Common Core Standards were created to bridge that gap and promote a leveled playing field. No matter where students live, they are given the same set of high educational standards and the same chance to successfully enter college or the workforce. Teachers, researchers and experts in the field from various states joined to write the Common Core Standards. They analyzed the states with the most rigorous standards and took them to the next level. They also analyzed international standards of high achieving countries. The outcome was a set of benchmarks of required skills in reading and math in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The standards are not a government mandate. Each independent state had the option to adopt, beginning in 2010. So far, 46 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core Standards, with California being one of them. Alaska, Texas, Nebraska and Virginia have chosen not to adopt — and Minnesota has adopted only the English standards. You can expect to see more rigorous
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and challenging requirements of our California students, who will be required to think and reason at an advanced level to reach greater depths of knowledge. In English and language arts, students will be required to analyze and cite evidence from a text to support their arguments. Math students will have multistepped problems that will be geared towards real-life concepts. Students will be tested on the Common Core Standards in the 2014-15 school year. California is working with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to develop an assessment system to match the Common Core Education columnist Standards, and to accurately measure a student's progress towards college and career readiness. It simply isn’t enough to complete school. Students must walk away with the critical thinking, knowledge and skills required for success in a college or work environment. The Common Core Standards aim to raise the educational expectations for all of our nation’s students.
KIMBERLY WARD GRAHAM
Kimberly Ward Graham is a teacher on special assignment to develop Common Core for the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District.
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The Bakersfield Blades Figure Skating Club team poses for a picture.
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he Bakersfield Blades Figure Skating Club team took first place in the theme production event July 24 at the 2013 ISI World Team Championships in Anaheim. The Bakersfield team sent 25 skaters to the weeklong competition that included more than 2,000 skaters from 20 states and six countries. Out of 86 teams, Bakersfield placed 17th in collective points from all of its skaters.
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‘Four Preps’ to open local concert season BY PHILLIP SCOTT Community contributor
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njoy a magical afternoon of everything from doo-wop to pop standards with the Four Preps, singing their enchanting “26 Miles Across the Sea” today in the Rabobank Theater. The Four Preps will appear in concert at 3 p.m., opening the Bakersfield Community Concert Association sea-
son. As a Hollywood High student in 1954, Bruce Belland co-founded The Four Preps. The band was signed by Capitol Records that same year after impressing a Capitol executive at a school talent show. On the beach one day with friends, with ukulele in hand, Bruce please turn to FOUR PREPS / PAGE 2
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