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Scooped by Mel Riddile onto Common Core State Standards for School Leaders |
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Mathematical literacy is an important skill for the 21st century. Being to to do simple math in your head is useful and important, and we're losing that ability.
"There’s a culture among schoolkids to dislike math and the perception that it’s largely useless."
"...as soon as you fear a subject, or don’t want to learn it, you won’t."
“I just don’t get math.”
“I’ve never been any good at math.”
“I don’t like it.”
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Many states plan to replace their current high school exit exams with tests being designed for the Common Core State Standards, according to a new study. And it appears that many of them will tie high school graduation decisions to those new assessments, a shift that could represent a big change in the high school completion landscape. Delete the scoop?
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State High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition, a report by by Shelby McIntosh at the Center on Education Policy in Washington, DC, USA... Delete the scoop?
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