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Science 4 December 2009: Researchers had students write a paragraph after science lessons explaining how they thought they could apply what they had just learned to their lives. Writing one-to-eight of these during a semester led to positive student learning gains. 
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Many parents were incorrectly told their child passed a test given to those with cognitive disabilities.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Here is a brief round-up of these 10 facts but you can check the slide for more illustrations.
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Fourth graders in New York State answered this question about multiply whole numbers on their math exams this spring. Along with this year's test scores —
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Thanks to an influx of state funds, students will return to schools with staffs largely intact. And gone is the protracted preparation for standardized tests.
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By Jim Dunn National School Public Relations Association
Julie Regimbal's curator insight,
August 15, 2013 11:28 AM
As we are having so many conversations about the Common Core and Curriculum
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A Conversation About Rigor — Part 1 This is the first post in a dialogue between Patrick Honner and me concerning rigor, testing, and the new Common Core Math Standards. Each installment in this ...
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In order to better understand an issue that will affect every aspect of K-12 schooling, I recommend you take three important steps: 1.Watch Mike McShane’s Top 3 video (below) on the Common Core. 2.Read “5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About the Common Core” and AEI’s recent research paper series, which addresses how the Common Core will affect other school improvement efforts. 3. Engage in the conversation. Don’t just jump on the pro- or anti- bandwagon; ask hard questions and seek out answers… because kids’ futures are depending on it.
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Even if you believe that the Common Core standards are a good thing, you should be worried about how they are being implemented.
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Georgia’s first statewide test reflective of the higher standards and more advanced content in the Common Core was the End of Course Test in coordinate algebra. A large majority — 63 percent — of students who took the coordinate algebra test this past spring failed to meet the state standard. Ten of the 15 school districts in the metro area had failure rates above 50 percent, including Clayton County (77.9 percent), Atlanta Public Schools (77 percent) and DeKalb County (74.3 percent).}
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Try these apps, for ELA and math, which promote Common Core-friendly ideas like collaboration and creation.
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Read four suggestions for accelerating substantive learning essential for transforming educator practice and beliefs when implementing Common Core.
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Thomas J. Donohue is CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1615 H Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20062; website: www.uschamber.com. John Engler is president of the Business Roundtable.
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The nonprofit best known for the SAT joins a growing list of players seeking pieces of the common-core-assessment business. "But the idea is to create a suite of tests that could serve as indicators of how well students are progressing toward mastering the college-readiness skills outlined in the standards in literacy and mathematics. States could use those tests as part of their accountability systems by 2014-15, Mr. Coleman said."
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GothamSchools This year's state English language arts exams required more close-reading than ever before, in keeping with the priorities of the Common Core learning
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A survey by the American Association of School Administrators finds that across-the-board trigger cuts are affecting classrooms as the 2013-14 school year begins.
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The Common Core Standards emphasize the integration of content understanding and writing. In Common demonstrates this, using K-12 samples from all three types of Common Core writing: argument/opinion writing, informative/explanatory writing, and narrative writing.
Michael Rost's curator insight,
August 18, 2013 12:21 PM
ooh, ooh, ooh... Samples!!! We need actual data to start formulating standards.
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information and resources related to the CORE 2013 Summer Symposium focused on Academic Language and Literacy Development, and its key implications for CCSS implementation.
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States surveyed by the Center on Education Policy say finding resources to implement the Common Core with schools & teachers is a challenge.
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BATON ROUGE — Louisiana has been gradually increasing rigor in its public schools since 2010 in preparation for full implementation next year of what some consider a controversial program: Common Core State Standards.
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Overall pass rates dropped, and the rate of perfect scores plummeted. In Arlington, just 2 percent of fifth-graders, 1 percent of third-graders and 0.2 percent of eighth-graders earned perfect scores on the new test in 2012.
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Intel Foundation—helping develop a future diverse workforce and increase interest in math and science education.
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Tim Shanahan on Literacy Common Core advocates make a big deal out of the idea that questions should be text dependent. This means you shouldn’t be able to answer a question without reading the text. By all means ask questions that require reading. "However, this is a very low standard. Many text dependent questions simply aren’t worth asking." "The key is to ask questions that are not only text dependent, but that guide the reader to accomplish those interpretive goals. To do that the questions have to emphasize what is important in the universe of the text."
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