The world needs more close readings of standards documents (a fact that suggests how lightly they are read by the people required to apply them). This close reading (15 page PDF) illustrates, for example, that "the language used to articulate high level goals and objectives articulated in the executive summary of the standards document, such as interdisciplinarity, addressing the learning needs of all students, and equity of access, is mostly absent from the articulation of the standards themselves." And as is so often the case, "the language used in the standards heavily addressed Bloom's lower level thinking skills (such as identify, discuss, and explain) and less so Bloom's high level thinking skills."
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