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Vocabulary at the Core: Teaching the Common Core State Standards, by Amy Benjamin and John T. Crow, is the definitive guide for every teacher engage... 
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NCTM serves math teachers, math educators, and administrators by providing math resources and professional development opportunities. Working for more and better math for all students.
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"Recently I took a class through the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. Since I often write about historical topics, I wanted to learn more about the collections at the Library of Congress (LOC). I was amazed at their massive online collections which contain documents, maps, newspapers, images, sound recordings, sheet music and much, much more. While searching the LOC website I found myself getting lost in a fascinating world of primary sources—a real treat for a nonfiction author."
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Alabama’s decision to drop out of both consortia and choose a battery of ACT exams is enormous
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Such efforts are on the rise as education standards push critical thinking and nonfiction reading. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core, which requires nonfiction to comprise 70 percent of what a student reads by senior year. Principals and teachers say lessons from news literacy extend beyond teaching students about journalism.
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A decade after No Child Left Behind, some parents and students say no to the high-stakes exams.
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Writing is the mode on which the assessments are being built. The CCSS's impetus to integrate reading and writing across all subject areas drives the dismissal of classes only using textbook-driven instruction...and their mirrored counterparts in current state testing. Textbook instruction often presents one type of question and one mode of learning--the CCSS assessments want to encourage a social component to learning that is integrated with ample opportunities for students to read and write.
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To access these resources, educators will need to go to http://nms.org/Resources/CommonCore. They will click on the “Get Free Resources” button and asked to create a profile. Educators will then have unlimited access to these resources and all new open resources developed for PARCC by NMSI, ELC state team members, and PARCC staff members. Additional, free classroom-ready lessons are also available on the NMSI website. Released materials are organized under the following strands:
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Advocates say the standards, soon to be accompanied by standardized tests, are tougher than many states’ current standards, including Ohio’s and Kentucky’s, and pushes teachers to cover fewer concepts and skills but to go deeper into the most important ones.
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Students are being asked to ignore us and we are being asked to force them to sit through testing when in our hearts, we, too, may question this testing program.
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Accountable Talk Read Alouds are read alouds that increase student talk and get students comfortable with having independent academic conversations with their peers. During these read alouds, students have a buddy that they sit next to and talk with during read aloud time.
Terrie Morgan Cox's curator insight,
August 5, 2013 12:47 PM
this is exactly what we need to do... have accountability and increase time in text
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The following Problem Based Learning curriculum maps are based on the Math Common Core State Standards and the associated scope and sequences. The problems and tasks have been scoured from thoughtf...
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Learning To Learn: 7 Dimensions Of Effective Learning from TeachThought
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More than 7,500 math educators are gathered in Denver this week for the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. "One thing that struck me is that if the common core is the star attraction of this NCTM meeting, gauging by the guide, STEM education most decidedly is not."
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Over the last several years both parents and school leaders have pushed more and more students into middle school algebra. Is it helping? What role with the Common Core State Standards play? Read our latest blog post.
Tai Hong's curator insight,
May 6, 2013 8:50 AM
As time passes, we learn more about everything, including education. When we know more about how to educate students, they become more capable of exceeding our limits than we are. 
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January 21, 2014 6:59 PM
This article that I scooped was about 8th grade math standards. Some of the things it was talking about were how 47% of the 8th grade was able to take algebra 1 or higher forms of algebra. Another thing it talked about was how adults and teachers are starting to notice this to. One of the ways the adults might have noticed this is that is by the algebra test scores are higher than usual. Or that maybe that if they put out a higher level algebra question just to see where the student is in math. Another way to find out if the students are a higher level of Math, is by putting them through a series of different algebra Questions.
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The College Board and ACT have entered the ring
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The city's Department of Education launched an ad blitz Monday to get the message out that students are being held to higher standards, the day before students start taking tougher state tests.
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I quickly saw the need for revising professional learning in our schools, beginning with a change in our vocabulary — replacing professional development with professional learning.
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The Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed this Senate-approved bill on April 12 eliminating the Algebra 2 test as a graduation requirement. In the midst of possible major changes to graduation requirements in Texas, Florida has also taken a significant step towards changing high school requisites as well. There are similarities between what the two states are considering, including what tests and courses must be taken to earn certain types of diplomas.
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2,000+ high quality lessons by top teachers - all aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
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New York City public school students are undergoing rigorous preparation for the redesigned exams, which are likely to cover some material that is not yet in the curriculum.
Jenny Sloane's curator insight,
November 17, 2013 9:56 PM
What stood out to me the most in this article was the first sentence when parents begged a principal to postpone a lower school science fair because their child was too stressed and anxious about upcoming tests. I understand that standardized tests are part of almost every curriculum in public schools; however, curriculum should not revolve solely around the tests. Education is more than just taking tests. I think critical thinking, learning to write research papers, and working in groups are just as important as doing well on tests. Everything I just mentioned are crucial elements of education in my opinion and the amount of emphasis and stress that is put on standardized tests only detracts from the other elements. Furthermore, I was appalled to read that this request was made by parents of a lower school student. Children that young should not be exposed to that much pressure or stress that comes along with standardized tests. I do not think it is healthy or fair. The fact that 10 and 11 year olds have to be reminded to just relax and to take a moment to breathe is very concerning to me. If students feel this amount of pressure in elementary school, I do not want to imagine how overwhelmed and stressed they will be in high school and higher education. I think something needs to be done to address these issues and find a way to use testing, but adjust it in a way to make it less stressful.
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1. Begin introducing more informational text, preferably from primary sources. 2. Increase text complexity and provide scaffolding via model texts.
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The focus on literacy, which permeates almost every corner of the building, from the biology lab to math classes to the chorus room, has helped transform Stuart -- once ranked among its district's lowest performers on Virginia state exams -- into an internationally recognized model of achievement. Banners tout awards from the International Center for Leadership in Education, the Education Trust, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other organizations. Remarkably, just over half of the school's nearly 1,500 students come from low-income homes, and two-thirds speak English as a second language.
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by Larry Ferlazzo "Mimic Writing" is showing students models of writing and challenging them to write their own versions sticking pretty close to the models’ styles.
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