What does it mean?

•Currently, standards vary from state to state.

•CCSS will help ensure consistent quality in education no matter your zip code.

•By 2014, 64% of new jobs will require postsecondary training.

•About $1.4 billion per year is spent on remedial education for college students.

• A historic, bipartisan state-led effort by the National Governor’s Assoc and the Council of Chief of State School Officers along with education groups, such as ACT, College Board (SAT), and Achieve.

•Consistent English language arts and math standards for kindergarten through twelfth grades voluntarily adopted by states.

•CCSS are relevant to the real world and reflective of knowledge and skills needed in college and career.

•National PTA adopted a position statement Supporting clear, high standards in 1981.

•PTA is the leading voice speaking on behalf of parents.

•PTAs have the ability to be the vehicle of information as Mississippi begins the implementation Stage of CCSSI.

English language arts consists of four strands:

•Reading•Writing•Speaking and Listening•Language

Each strand is further broken down to specific standards.

Separate standards are included for reading and writing in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects.

Reading Standards for Literature

Reading Standards for Informational Text

Grade 3: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Grade 3: Describe the relationships between a series of historical events, scientific ideas of concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Grade 7: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot)

Grade 7: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

Grades 11-12: Evaluate various explanations for characters’ actions or for events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.

Grades 11-12: Analyze a complex set of ideas or sequence of events and explain how specific individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the text.

From Achieve.org Understanding the CCSSI, June 2010

Grade-Level Standards

• K-8 grade-by-grade standards organized by domain with a concentration in geometry and algebra in 7th and 8th grades.

• 9-12 high school standards organized by conceptual categories- Number and Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Modeling, Geometry, Statistics and Probability.

• How teachers should teach.• All that can or should be taught.• The nature of advanced work beyond the core.• The interventions needed for students well

below grade level.• The full range of support for English language

learners and students with special needs.• Everything needed to be college and career

ready.

Internet Resources

•www.corestandards.org•www.ode.state.oh.us•www.achieve.org/achievingcommoncore•www.commoncore.org