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"The fate of the Common Core State Standards may well depend on what this country does about testing and accountability." "American teachers figured out a long time ago that these tests are great at testing the rudiments of the basic skills and not very good at testing complex skills, deep understanding, critical thinking or creativity, the things teachers want most to teach, another reason for them to detest the typical test."
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Achievethecore.org Student Achievement Partners These tools provide specific guidance for what the CCSS for ELA/Literacy and math looks like in planning and practice. They are designed as developmental tools for teachers and those who support teachers. Use the Evidence Guides for:
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Mel Riddile's insight:
Even in the most optimistic light, it may take five years or more before high schools enjoy higher graduation rates and more on-time graduates, a recent study by the New York based Carnegie Corp. predicts. Carnegie’s “challenge paper” urges education and policy leaders nationwide to make big, structural changes in high schools, even as they get ready for Common Core exams, if they hope to help today’s students excel.
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ACA has created a simple document with the top ten things a school counselor should consider if his/her state is following the Common Core State Standards. Read and share this document with your school and district. ACA wants to support your involvement in this college and career readiness forum. School counselors are essential to the Common Core State Standards work!
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Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. "He addressed students who don’t and won’t engage, and how to change the way we present problems to change the paradigm for their learning. In the video, Meyer states, “Students need to decide, ‘All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?’ — such an underrepresented question in math curricula.” Teaching students to think about problems, rather than spoon feeding them the answers, will also teach them to stick with it. This is critical in addressing this part the CCSS.
Hannah Jacobs's curator insight,
May 20, 2017 5:45 AM
This TED talk by Dan Meyer provides a revolutionary view on how mathematics should be taught, as opposed to how it is currently being done. He explains that 'Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect and excel at a paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them.' He further explains that students lack initiative, perseverance, and retention, and that they have an aversion to word problems and are keen to just find a formula to solve. Breaking maths down is necessary so that students will retain what they have learnt and will encourage them to participate in patient problem solving. Using multimedia to bring the real world into the classroom and redefining math problems to relate to real world situations is the key to engaging students in mathematics studies. Put simply, maths makes sense of the world. 
Stacey Mendan's curator insight,
May 27, 2017 10:15 PM
Mathematics is about the world. Mathematics requires perseverance, patience, exploration and questions to be asked. We need to support learners in embracing these activities and remind them that mathematics is everywhere. Technology may be one part of achieving this.
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In my district our schools are busting at the seams with kids needing social pragmatics skills. We even have city-wide social thinking educators that run groups all focused on social skill development.
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Test scores will fall at first in schools where the new and more rigorous state tests have been rolled out, but the long-term payoff is what matters. The proportion of students who were rated “proficient” or better in math and reading dropped by about a third in both middle and elementary school the first time the new tests were given. That is likely to happen in state after state as weak tests are replaced by stronger ones.
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For the past fourteen years the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU has been sponsoring themed panels of educators/practitioners on a wide range of topics. The topic d’annee: The Common Core. The...
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If you have been keeping up with the Common Core, in particular ELA, you have heard the term close reading a few times and may have asked “what is close reading?” In the last year I’ve participated...
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Students in high-performing schools have more and deeper opportunities to learn science than those in struggling schools, according to a recent Massachusetts course audit released by the Rennie Center.
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More than three times as many high school teachers as college professors think their students are well prepared to succeed in college-level courses, an national ACT survey finds.
khodge55's curator insight,
April 20, 2013 3:28 PM
These percentages make me nervous. I feel as though I am prepared for the work load in college, but if college professors only believe 26% of students are prepared and high school teachers think 89% are ready that means that even though some of my teachers may think I am on the right path to do well in college, I may not be. Hopefully taking college level classes will help me be a part of the 26% that are "well" or "very well" prepared for college. 
Drew Fuchs's comment,
April 20, 2013 10:57 PM
I feel like it all depends on the person. If you have motivation to do the work load, then I think you'll be fine but if you are completely unprepared, it will be a tough ride.
MsHaeussinger's comment,
April 22, 2013 7:37 AM
There is certainly a significant gap between what we prepare you for in high school and what you find in college. The tough part is, not everyone is 4 year college ready in high school, leaving teachers with a significant challenge which professors don't understand.
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Sarah Brown Wessling looks at the Common Core data from MetLife's new survey of educators. How does it compare with her colleagues and her own experiences? "Doing it ourselves and transferring those skills to our learners is the tough task." "For many it’s paradigm shifting"
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Machine Scoring Fails the Test, from the NCTE Task Force on Writing Assessment, aproved by the NCTE Executive Committee, April 15, 2013
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On April 23, 2013 Natomas Unified School District staff presented this Common Core State Standards Implementation Plan to the Board of Education.
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"Executive Director Joe Willhoft confirmed for us that Alaska did not adopt the common core; instead, it has its own state standards. To determine if Alaska could participate in the consortium, "an independent analysis was required to ensure that their standards were substantially the same" as the common standards adopted by the other states, Willhoft told me in an email. "That analysis demonstrated that the Alaska standards are similar enough to the [Common Core State Standards] that ... an assessment aligned to [the common core] could be used as a valid assessment in Alaska."
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"The Common Core Standards are opposed by many teachers for a variety of reasons. Yet I submit that if critical thinking is one of their goals, the standards can prove to be a blessing in disguise. I say that because non-fiction is supposed to constitute 70 percent of what students read by their senior year. That's where quality journalism comes in. By engaging students and providing models, newspapers and magazines have the potential to do what traditional textbooks cannot.
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Success At The Core Video examines quatitative and abstract reasoning.
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By Emily Diehl, Mindset Works educator consultant
Sue Thuma's curator insight,
April 22, 2013 11:38 PM
Loved the mention of a risk tolerant culture as we move toward implementing the Common Core. 
susanne bowen's curator insight,
April 24, 2013 9:48 AM
Very fresh and encouraging take on our new standards and the challenges ahead of us!
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"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." By Oliver Wendell Holmes 1. Have a Math Curriculum Night in the beginning of the year for parents.
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More than 100 schools in Hillsborough County still need wireless access.
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Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) - needs for online assessments
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