Henry Kranendonk, a retired Milwaukee Public Schools math curriculum planner and NAEP board member, said Wisconsin's failure to narrow the disparity — which has existed for decades — is a challenge for Milwaukee in particular because it has the highest concentration of minority students. Kranendonk said the problem has long been weak standards for what students should know, and he was hopeful the recent adoption of standards more in line with NAEP, called Common Core State Standards, would help.
"If we use (the standards) seriously and provide resources for schools to help teachers, and provide structure for implementing those standards, I think that would help us address the achievement gap, and the biggest beneficiary of this would be Milwaukee Public Schools," he said.
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A MPS
teacher should know better. MPS has serious problems. Absenteeism is
high, teen pregnancy is high, drug use is high, violence is epidemic,
and poverty is a blight on many of the communities that MPS serves. The
common core will not fix any of these problems. Is Mr.
Kranendonk paid to say what anyone who has worked in MPS cannot
possibly believe; that the common core is a silver bullet for education.
If we are going to fix MPS we need honest conversations. To those unaware of the problems of MPS, click a few of the links below.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/111470829.html
MPS worker put on administrative leave over talking to the press.
If we are going to fix MPS we need honest conversations. To those unaware of the problems of MPS, click a few of the links below.
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/111470829.html
MPS worker put on administrative leave over talking to the press.
Fight at Vincent , this is a
regular occurrence in many schools and neighborhoods in Milwaukee.
Fight at Washington High School
More fights
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