10.11.13 Kathy Dyer Higher-Order Questions, Rigor, and Meeting the Common Core State Standards Barbara Blackburn, on her website, has a great definition of "rigor" that I think most educators can get behind, and that I certainly appreciate: Rigor is creating an environment in which each... Read more
9.13.13 John Wood Common Core Assessments – Measuring the Intangible Recently in the New York Times, Stanley Fish wrote a piece titled The Two Cultures of Educational Reform. Though his essay was focused on higher education, his thoughts and those of Derek Bok and... Read more
9.2.13 John Wood Common Core State Standards: What we can Learn from Massachusetts Massachusetts today has some of the best test scores in the country. When Massachusetts is considered by itself in PISA and TIMMS comparisons, the results in math, science and reading are on par... Read more
8.2.13 Kathy Dyer Teacher Professional Development: 5 Formative Assessment Fundamentals for Common Core Success ... Read more
7.17.13 Andrew Hegedus Multiple choice assessments are good enough for nuclear power, why not education? As the concluding post to a four-part series on how assessments can be well-aligned to state or common core standards, I am introducing a new phrase into the education ecosystem – a reasonable... Read more
7.1.13 John Wood Common Core State Standards – What’s the Controversy? We’ve blogged fairly extensively on the Common Core State Standards over the last several months and generally favor them as the path to better critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration... Read more
6.17.13 John Wood AES and Making Sense in the Common Core State Standards World Those who speak and write against automated essay scoring (AES) often create a false dichotomy that the scoring must be all human or all AES. Perhaps critics feel if they admit any usefulness for... Read more
6.5.13 Amy Gordon Webinar Feedback: Incorporating Common Core Shifts in ELA and Math Our first webinar in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) series – What Teachers and Leaders Need to Know about the Common Core MAP Assessment – took place on March 11th and you can read... Read more
5.24.13 John Wood Teacher and Automated Essay Scoring (AES)… A Winning Combination? One of the hallmarks and frustrations of the field of education is the imprecision of the language. In education we call the same thing by many names, or we use the same term to mean many different... Read more
5.20.13 John Wood Automated Essay Scoring (AES) and the Common Core State Standards In the last few weeks a lot has been written about using computers to score student writing. Harvard and MIT offered through EdX, their joint venture to deliver massive open online courses (MOOCs),... Read more
5.14.13 Matt Chapman Give Educators Time and Support to Implement the Common Core AFT calls for moratorium on Common Core consequences. In her April 30 speech, Randi Weingarten demonstrated clear and unimpeachable logic by asking for adequate time and resources to prepare for... Read more
5.3.13 Amy Gordon Webinar Feedback: MAP Connections to College and Career Readiness Our first webinar in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) series took place on March 11th and you can read participant feedback here. The next webinar in the series, titled MAP Connections to... Read more
