After having a difficult time trying to locate the site (I left off one c) I finally found it without getting an error message. I do find it helpful with a lot of information provided. It lists by grade level by subject the NJ State's core curriculum standards. I'm not sure it's a very effective site for the general community. However, if a child is homeschooled, it may assist the education provider by providing a skill set the student should be attaining by grade level.
The site provides links for educators. The links I accessed were helpful if your style of garnering information is by reading. If you're the type of person who likes charts, this site can be helpful also.
I'm not sure how the community or parents would use this site.
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I agree that it can be hard for the general community to use. There is a lot of information on this site and most of it is geared towards educators. I think there should be a simpler version of the standards for parents or other community members to use.
You have a good point that the information on this webpage is not of much use to the community or to parents. The CCCS were written with a lot of educational jargon and were meant to be used by teachers in their classrooms. It would be helpful if the DOE included links for parents to use at home that would further their abilities to assist their children in learning the CCCS.
If we wanted to make a parent's guide for CCCS, what should that site look like?
A CCCS site for parents should probably list grades, "jargon free" objectives and home activities that can be used to reinforce the cccs. Parents may like to know ways to assess their child's progress at home. Also the NJ department of education could create a survey asking parents what information they will find useful. This will make the website more useful to the general public.
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