Readiness Revealed

Here is a summary of the recommendations of the readiness report along with a link to the report. The report has more detail so do click through to get a better picture. The plan calls for the implementation of these goals over the next 12 years and beyond.

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• Establish a fully integrated and adequately funded state system of early education and care that begins  at birth.
• Engage and mobilize families and all sectors of society to provide the education, social, emotional, health and human services each student needs to be ready to learn and succeed in school.
• Increase adult learning opportunities to help families engage in their children’s education.
• Provide intensive, systemic induction and mentoring for all educators in their first three years of service.
• Accelerate the entry of highly qualified teachers into public schools, particularly in high-needs districts and high-priority disciplines such as science, technology, engineering and math.
• Improve teaching in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines by strengthening content knowledge and teaching strategies.
• Maintain the current MCAS test as a graduation requirement and strengthen the system to include measures of individual student growth and college readiness, which would complement but not replace the current measures.
• Recruit and retain world-class faculty to the Commonwealth’s public higher education institutions.
• Create regional partnerships, resources and capacity to improve education at every level.
• Align the Commonwealth’s standards, frameworks and curriculum with the demands of 21st century life, work and citizenship.
• Engage students in their learning by broadly integrating 21st century tools into teaching and learning as well as increasing interdisciplinary, hands-on and project-based learning.
• Provide students with multiple pathways to postsecondary education and the workforce that are based on high, internationally benchmarked academic and employment standards.
• Make college accessible and affordable for all Commonwealth students.
• Provide two years of postsecondary education or the equivalent in a professional trade as the new baseline of our state education system.
• Guarantee transfer of credits between and among the state’s public higher education institutions.
• Increase the state’s production of postsecondary degrees.
• Structure the school day and school year to match the needs of students, teachers and families.
• Bring the proven benefits of the charter school movement into mainstream schools and classrooms throughout the Commonwealth.
• Provide sufficient resources to support the development of a truly 21st century public education system.
• Create a statewide master teacher contract.
• Actively partner with all segments of society to efficiently and effectively fund innovations and systemic improvements in education.
• Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of education governance and services to students by dramatically reducing the number of school districts in the Commonwealth.
• Leverage information technology to support innovations in teaching and learning.
• Strengthen the connections among the Commonwealth’s education and economic development strategies and initiatives.

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