Madison School District: High School Career and College Readiness Plan

via a kind reader's email:

We have received a significant volume of questions and feedback regarding the plan for High School College and Career Readiness. We are in the process of reviewing and reflecting upon questions and feedback submitted to date. We are using this information to revise our original timeline. We will provide additional information as we move forward.

We will have an electronic format for gathering additional feedback in the near future.

Summary
High School Career And College Readiness Plan is a comprehensive plan outlining curricular reform for MMSD comprehensive high schools and a district-wide process that will end in significant curriculum reform. The rationale for developing this plan is based on five points:

1. Need for greater consistency across our comprehensive high schools.
2. Need to align our work to the ACT career and college readiness standards and common core standards.
3. Need to address our achievement gaps and to do so with a focus on rigor and acceleration of instruction.
4. Need to address loss of students through open enrollment.
5. Need to respond to issues regarding unequal access to accelerated courses in grades 9 and 10.

The plan is based on the following theory of action:

Lots of related links:

• "Stand Up Against the MMSD High School Reform"
• Madison school district to consider alternatives to traditional public schools
• Advanced Placement, Gifted Education & A Hometown Debate
• On the Gifted & Talented Complaint Against the Madison School District
• Madison School District 2010-2011 Enrollment Report, Including Outbound Open Enrollment (3.11%)
• Complaint Filed Against Madison Schools
• English 10
• District Small Learning Community Grant - Examining the Data From Earlier Grants, pt. 2
• Madison United for Academic Excellence has a number of posts on this matter, as does greatmadisonschools.org

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 23, 2010 11:43 AM
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