Content standards define what students must know and be able to do. Performance standards define how well students must know and be able to do what is defined in the content standards. The best standards combine content and performance. World-class standards are rigorous, public, assessable, high stakes, inclusive, coherent, specific, and parsimonious. Less is more.
Excellence takes care of itself.
It is equity we need to promote. The Middletown Public Schools will be hosting monthly meetings with the community to discuss our direction and focus as we move toward designing a high performance, results-based school district. This effort demonstrates to the community that we are planning for the future with improvements. We are all very lucky to live in a community that has vision and a forward-thinking agenda. It is easy to see that things are not the way they were 20 years ago.