Career and technical education has come a long way from the welding and plumbing of a generation ago.
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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Teachers already have tried-and-true books and can use their library to build outward—moving from highlighting a single text to using a text cluster. 
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Helping teachers work together will be essential to the success of the common core, say Vicki Phillips and Robert Hughes.
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CCSS challenge is for teachers:
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New standards may mean ‘longer, more thoughtful’ exams for high school students.
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Some Montgomery County parents say Curriculum 2.0 is ‘one-size-fits-all’ math.
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This wonky but important (and exceptionally timely) book by Schmidt and McKnight is a distinctive, deeply researched, and amply documented plea for full-scale implementation of the Common Core math standards...
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The inequalities in content coverage begin with the state and local community in which a child is to attend school…and continue with the neighborhood school to which the child is assigned. Furthermore, two children, even from the same family and attending the same school but with different teachers for each of the first five grades, are not likely to have the same learning opportunities….A topic can be covered or not covered. Topics can be studied in different sequences, some of which may not make any sense from the point of view of the content itself. Students can receive more or less time for instruction, depending on the teacher’s decision. All of these differences in content coverage can be found in the varying experiences of children from different families who live in different regions of the state or country…
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Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform.
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Students would be banned from using their calculators on the seventh- and eighth-grade Standards of Learning math exams under a bill introduced by a state lawmaker from Fairfax County.
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The 2012-13 school year marks the second year for Tennessee’s shift to a new evaluation model based on the state’s 2010 First to the Top legislation. A quick Google search for the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) will reveal 49,700 sites dedicated to various aspects of Tennessee’s implementation of the new model.
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We need to rethink the "complex text" delivery of our teaching and outcome expectations of student learning around complex text."
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Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday discusses the state's new education standards.
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As tests get more rigorous, do you expect proficiency scores to fall further? Everybody who does this the first year of assessment of Common Core should see numbers very similar to what we saw. But I'm very confident that as each year moves forward, as the kids close the gap and the teachers close the gap, we'll see scores go back up. I don't think that there's any truth that our kids can't do this work. I think it's just they rise to whatever we expect. And the teachers will too. What lessons would you share with education leaders in other states? I think the No. 1 thing is communication.
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December 12, 2012 2:33 PM
Communication is key. We must be proactive in letting the our stakeholders know about the challenges educators are facing in implementing the Common Core State Standards.
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Editor's note: This is the second post in a five-part series which takes a look at five big ideas for implementation of the Common Core State Standards, authored by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins T...
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“The Standards define what all students are expected to know and be able to do, not how teachers should teach."
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Educators, industry leaders, economic development professionals and elected officials gathered discuss ways to ensure students are career ready and businesses have a highly skilled and trained workforce available to them.
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"82 percent of manufacturers can’t find employees with the skill sets needed to fill open positions, and that 74 percent said that gap has negatively impacted their ability to expand their operations."
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December 12, 2012 2:39 PM
Insights from ASCD, a trusted source for pertinent information for educators.
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December 12, 2012 2:40 PM
Insights from ASCD, a trusted source for pertinent information for educators.
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The move to a uniform system reflects a broader trend in education reform, as states also launch the new Common Core State Standards, which will allow more accurate comparisons of academic achievement
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Spelling and student writing: Does it matter much? Should it matter more?
2:17 am December 3, 2012, by Maureen Downey
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I remain surprised how often student work chosen for display suffers spelling or grammatical errors. At a school open house, I watched a student PowerPoint on international poverty where I stopped counting after the seventh misspelled word.
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English teachers around country worry that new academic standards are pushing out literature.
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The first standard under Reading for Literature and Reading for Informational Text is the same. This standard focuses on textual evidence.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sat down with his newly restructured P-20 Council Friday to discuss moving the state towards adopting Common Core education standards, a process he acknowledges will almost certainly highlight bad news for the state.
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"But when Common Core standards are in place and there is a national bar set at a standard similar to how proficiency is defined under the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Laine said it will be evident that many of those students are not proficient. Laine brought slides to illustrate his point. On average the top 12 performing states on National Assessment of Educational Progress consider about 75 percent of their students proficient. But by the NAEP standards only about 41 percent of those kids are considered proficient."
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This is a revised version of my original Fifty Shades of the Common Core presentation. - by Jennifer Jones
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