College and Career-Ready Standards for School Leaders
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Supporting school leaders in helping all students become college and career-ready and to succeed in post-secondary education and training
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December 18, 2012 The Common Core State Standards provide an opportunity to realize systemic change and ensure that American students are held to the same high expectations in mathematics and literacy as their global peers — regardless of state or zip code. 
Nancy J. Herr's curator insight,
September 9, 2013 4:04 PM
Wow! Don't know how to respond when teachers say "It's not MY job" regarding literacy skills? Need a professional, well thought out answer to why taking higher levels of math in high school helps achievement in general? It's in here-- and so is everything else you wanted to know about Common Core. 
Rufus Hannah's curator insight,
October 5, 2013 6:29 PM
We are piloting Common Core resources with elementary students at my school. We are realizing the challenges of working without textbooks - how much teachers need to know about lesson design along with assessment for and of learning. 
Dr. Dea Conrad-Curry's curator insight,
January 6, 2014 6:31 PM
Yes, secondary schools and leadership there is help for you!
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By Paul Fain Inside Higher Ed "Fully half of all undergraduates and 70 percent of community college students take at least one remedial course, which are generally not credit-bearing.
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"If Finland were a state taking the 8th grade NAEP, it would probably score in the middle of the pack,"
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List of assessment and rubric information
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Reihan Salam writes on NRO "I’m a proponent of states adopting Common Core state standards that are fewer, clearer, and higher in part because of the innovation their adoption could seed through the creation of a common market. Having common standards across the country could begin to reward content providers that target the long tail of learners because they would help to aggregate demand across the country, as opposed to what happens today where those providers that tailor their offerings to different and idiosyncratic state standards, for example, are rewarded." - Michael Horn
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"I commend the efforts of each state that my blog examines and offer these up to you as individual teachers and/or school districts to become templates for something more inclusive. That, I believe is their very purpose. One state cannot define for all teachers either within its own border much less beyond what precisely needs to be taught in each and every classroom."
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Education Week
By Catherine Gewertz The two national teachers' unions have won $11 million to build an online warehouse of instructional tools for the Common Core State Standards. Student Achievement Partners, whose founders led the writing of the standards, is also a grantee. It will work with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association and their teachers to build the tools and post them on Student Achievement Partners' website.
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Audit finds much lower costs than expected for Common Core State Standards in reading and math / LJWorld.com
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By Kathleen Porter-Magee
December 14, 2012 Those with a serious interest in improving English language arts in American schools would do better to spend time highlighting the kinds of texts that are actually recommended by the Common Core rather than perpetuating misinformation and dripping with malice.
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Research shows that vocabulary acquisition plays a huge role in student learning, therefore requires attention in the classroom. With the shifts of the Common Core, students need to spend time learning both Tier 2 and Tier 3 words in a variety of ways.
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Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) - Launched in June 2011 and co-led by the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons, the LRMI is working to create and implement a standard tagging specification for learning resources that enables alignment to learning standards, such as the Common Core..
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By Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis The Common Core State Standards stress the importance of teaching grammar. The standards lay out which grammar rules should be taught at which grade levels. So you know what rules to teach… but how do you teach them? Here are ten tips for teaching grammar according to the Common Core. (See the infographic here).
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International Baccalaureate educators say their program offers a base for designing curriculum units that align with the new Common Core State Standards in mathematics and English/language arts.
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The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) videos are designed to support states, schools, and teachers in the implementation of the CCSS. The videos were created in collaboration with the states in the Southeast Comprehensive Center region based on their needs for professional development support for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
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"If the implementers of the Common Core take a hard look at the past, they will find not only potential pitfalls but also some research guidance for the path ahead." This ES Select identifies five big obstacles to the Common Core’s success
...with essential lessons that policymakers must consider as the Common Core unfolds.
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It could costs tens of millions of dollars for Tennessee school districts to upgrade outdated technology infrastructure in time for new online assessments in the 2014-15 school year.
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EL editor in chief Marge Scherer talks with Jay McTighe about the promises and challenges of the Common Core State Standards.
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Rashmi Moghe's comment,
June 17, 2013 5:09 AM
A collection of articles from School library journal, where school librarians are essential participants of the common core initiative.
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eSchool News
The standards are designed to be more rigorous and to encourage deeper critical thinking skills—but implementing them poses a challenge. “Generally, most of the states are in the information sharing and training stage with their teachers." Chris Minnich, CCSSO In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and middle school students who rated proficient or better on statewide math and reading tests declined by about a third. National tests linked to the Common Core curriculum standards will be released in 2014, and Minnich thinks many states will see dramatic changes that school year. But education experts say those changes won’t be easy—and states might see a pushback from parents.
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Common Core Illinois provides information and resources about the Common Core State Standards to the parents and educators of Illinois.
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Achieve has developed materials to help states, districts, and others understand the organization and content of the standards and the content and evidence base used to support the standards.
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Teachers across the city do not feel adequately trained to prepare students for upcoming state exams aligned with new, more rigorous standards called Common Core, according to a survey conducted last month by the United Federation of Teachers.
Mel Riddile's insight:
"Walter Rendon, a teacher at Public School 24 in Riverdale, said adjusting his curriculum four months before exams is difficult. “It was not made clear that this was the new way we were going to be teaching,” Rendon said. “When someone says core standards are great because it offers a strong way for students to think, that may be true, but you need to make sure teachers are capable of doing that.”
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By Catherine Gewertz
Education Week December 14, 2012 PARCC pared back its plans to produce diagnostic and formative assessment tools because it had to use more of its available funding to create summative tests...primarily because (the) priority was and continues to be delivering world-class summative assessments."
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