Monday, September 8, 2008

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CDE

Colorado Department of Education – Communications Office
201 East Colfax Ave.
Room 501
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: 303-866-3898
Fax: 303-866-6938

Sept. 5, 2008

News Release

Eleven Regional Forums Scheduled To Define 21st Century Skills, School Readiness, Postsecondary Readiness, and Workforce Readiness For New State Standards Community members, parents, educators and students are invited to attend one of 11 community meetings being held around the state during the week of Sept. 15 to gather ideas about definitions which will modernize our state’s content standards. The meetings will be hosted by the Colorado Department of Education. The content standards establish by grade and subject what students are expected to learn in school. Each forum will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on the following dates and locations:

Monday, Sept. 15

Denver School of the Arts Concert Hall, 7111 Montview Blvd.
Jefferson County Building, Hearing Room #1, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden
Grand Junction Doubletree Hotel, Monument Room, 743 Horizon Dr.

Tuesday, Sept. 16

Colorado Springs Doubletree Hotel, 1775 E Cheyenne Mountain Blvd.
Durango High School, 2390 Main Ave.

Wednesday, Sept. 17

Alamosa School District, Ortega Middle School, 401 Victoria Ave.
Fort Collins, location to be determined
Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, 100 S. Wilcox

Thursday, September 18

Leadville School District, Lake County High School, 1000 West 4th St.
Pueblo West High School, 661 W. Capistrano Ave.
Steamboat Springs High School, 45 Maple St.

Attendees will be asked to review proposed definitions for “21st century skills,” “school readiness,” “post-secondary readiness” and “workforce readiness.” Those definitions will guide revisions to specific content standards.

“The content standards form the bedrock of our work in schools,” said Colorado Commissioner of Education Dwight D. Jones. “They represent a joint understanding of what is expected of teachers to teach and of students to learn. It’s critical that we gather the state’s best thinking about defining our terms in order to help the standards revision process move forward.”

Commissioner Jones announced the standards review process in September 2007.

The concept of content standards was developed in Colorado in the early 1990’s. Statewide standards for the first time defined the knowledge and benchmarks that students should acquire within each grade span and in each subject. Under state law, local school districts may adopt their own content standards as long as they are at least as rigorous as the state’s version.

The Colorado General Assembly passed the standards-based education law in 1993 and standards were written for reading, writing, mathematics and science. Additional standards have been developed in civics, dance, economics, foreign language, geography, history, music, physical education, theatre and visual arts.

The standards have not changed since schools started using them in 1994. The first strand of what has become the full Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) exam was given in 1997, when fourth-grade students were tested in reading and writing based on those standards.

The department’s Office of Standards and Assessment will deliver proposed new standards to the state board of education for final review December 2009.

For more information about the standards review process, visit http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/documents/OSA/stand_rev.html

For more information, contact Mark Stevens, 303-866-3898, or Megan McDermott, 303-866-2334, in the CDE Office of Communications. To sign up for the CDE e-mail news service, please visit http://www.cde.state.co.us/Communications/index.html .


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Dr. Geri J. Anderson
Provost
Colorado Community College System
http://www.cccs.edu/
720-858-2759

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