In 2005, New Hampshire became the first state to formally eliminate the Carnegie Unit. Eight years later, we continue to stay in compliance with an anachronistic system that schools seem reluctant to retire. We push teachers to implement authentic assessment, personalized learning, and project-based learning and yet they are governed by a system that puts these foundational student-centered principles in the trunk of the car instead of in the driver's seat.
How much longer will student proficiency and competency based learning...the elements of personalization that will force real, lasting, school-wide improvement be talked about?
If this was Nike, we'd "Just do it!"
JL, do you have a better graphic than the one above to see it clearer?
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