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One huge push is to utilize performance tasks as formative and summative assessments. We can do this in our classes with small changes for big benefits. Because learning is created from making connections to students past ...
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The Common Core State Standards, as you can tell from the contrasting pieces I published this week (here and here), are nothing if not controversial.
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The curriculum and related instruction must be designed backward from an analysis of standards-based assessments; i.e., worthy performance tasks anchored by rigorous rubrics and annotated work samples.
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The AFT's Innovation Fund is making a major investment in the Common Core State Standards. We’ve created a network of enthusiastic and knowledgeable teachers who are creating model materials that can be used nationwide.
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As educators, families and communities prepare to implement common standards, you can bet there will be quality Twitter info sharing. This weekly publication will link you to the conversation without having to continually follow your feed.
As a Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Governing State, the Michigan Department of Education is pleased to provide Michigan educators with the opportunity to apply to be item writers for the Smarter ...
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After a slow start, a flurry of activity has occurred in the past six months to prepare principals for the new standards.
In order to implement the Common Core State Standards, educators need resources and materials that they can use.
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Hamilton County education leaders kick off summer with a focus on Common Core ...Nooga.comThe Common Core provides rigorous, consistent and clear standards for every student in most states, including Tennessee,” said Ann Kilcher, PEF senior consultant...
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A new research paper offers a defense of the CCSSM.
Two years before its planned implementation, an effort to simplify building blocks of elementary and secondary education hits roadblocks.
Columnist Leanna Landsmann answers reader questions on education.
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It's great, first of all, that Khan Academy has all their student exercise code on GitHub for everybody to see. I don't know any other adaptive system that does that.
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One of the two big groups of states that are designing tests for the Common Core State Standards has pared back its plans to produce diagnostic and formative assessment tools because it had to use more of its available funding to create summative...
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If you're a teacher in the US, you've surely heard of the Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools.
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To Accelerate, or NotHuffington PostThe Common Core State Standards in mathematics (CCSSM) are the first step in an ambitious undertaking to create a system where all students meet the same, challenging expectations.
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Today's question is about the number of times Venus will transit the Sun between now and the year 2500.
Common Core Math In North Carolina Would Keep Elementary Students From Taking ...Huffington PostIn an effort to phase in a set of national education reforms knows as the Common Core -- an educational initiative that seeks to improve American...
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So now that I have relaxed, it's time for a little common core planning :) I know some of you have already started teaching with the common core standards, but I will be working to implement them into my classroom next school ...
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"The sky is falling!" Chicken Little warned everyone as an acorn fell on its head. Are Common Core Standards a government "takeover" of education?
Many teachers are broaching math topics at grades higher or lower than what the standards prescribe—and across more years than called for.
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David Coleman, a lead writer of the common standards whose nonprofit is producing curriculum materials, will take over as president of the organization on Oct. 15.
This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org.
Teachers in New York City schools are concerned about skills gaps that may occur during the transition to CCSSM.
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