RE: A researcher's view of the Master Plan, K-U

I am confused by the term "text book level" competence in "A researcher's view" from this morning.

I had the opportunity to observe the math textbook adoption process and as well intended as the panelists, mathematicians, and curriculum commissioners were...even with as hard as they all worked....I would not want the elementary math textbooks to be the benchmark against which learning is measured.  I work with three different districts and each adopted a different text so I have lived with three different textbooks for a year K-6 so I have gotten to see them from the classroom perspective as well as the adoption perspective.  None of them is complete.  

We have state mathematics standards that attempt to describe what we want our students to know and be able to do.  We have national mathematics standards that give a deeper description of what we want our students to know and be able to do, and how we want they to be able to think and apply their mathematical reasoning.  Use those as the benchmark for assessment and readiness for the next step.