Implementing Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Standards in Mathematics

Charlotte Higuchi

Charlotte Higuchi, third and fourth grade teacher at Farmdale Elementary School in East Los Angeles, California, talks about involving her students in parent conferences. Excepted from Schools That Work: The Research Advantage, Program #4, Alternatives for Measuring Assessment (NCREL, 1991).

"When I sit down and have the parent conferences with my students' parents, I always have the student there because it's about them, and the mom and the dad hopefully because they're a family, a unit together. I show them those assessments, and what they get from it, I believe, is a real sense of where their children are, what they know how to do in reading and math, etc. The standardized tests don't do that."

This Critical Issue Summary was researched and written by Cathy J. Cook, mathematics education and professional development specialist, Midwest Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.