Gain insights from policy, advocacy, research, and statewide assessment experts from NWEA and across the nation as they examine complex challenges in education and illuminate opportunities for federal and state leaders to ensure that all students have excellent opportunities to learn.
This is a good question, and one that Catherine Gewertz addresses in her blog at Education Week – What Do Kentucky Test Results Foreshadow for the Common Core. In her blog she …
Author: John Wood
Topics: Policy & advocacy
In the 1980s and 1990s I was fortunate enough to be chosen for a number of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars for secondary teachers. On a university campus, a group of 15 or …
The PARCC assessment consortium has taken an indirect approach to defining career and college readiness (CCR). Rather than offer a definition of CCR, they are correlating educational assessment …
Just before the holidays, Education Sector released a report entitled Let History Not Repeat Itself: Overcoming Obstacles to the Common Core’s Success authored by John Chubb. This is a rich and …
In a recent webinar discussing the promise of the assessment consortia, Joan Herman, Director of the Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Learning (CRESST) at UCLA, and Chris …
In a blog post on Getting Smart – 7 Teacher Questions About Common Core State Standards – Courtney Hanes describes the beginning steps of transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in …
As districts begin to implement the Common Core State Standards, the debate over how to incorporate more non-fiction, informational text, literary non-fiction, or texts from the content areas into …
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Educators-turned-advocates share how the pandemic will change education policy, and the ways it already has.
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