Reading the EdWeek article – Students Must Learn More Words, Say Studies – my mind flashed back to a scene from a few weekends ago when I took a walk with my three grandchildren on the Baltimore...
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The EdWeek article – 'Big Three' Publishers Rethink K-12 Strategies – focuses on how publishers are transitioning away from textbooks to digital content. But what got my attention were the...
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In a previous post (Part One), I discussed the MSPAP program in Maryland as an example of a “test worth teaching to” and pointed out the ways in which its good intentions were subverted. ...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Successful transition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), like most things in life, has a lot to do with timing. Every district in the 46 states participating in the Common Core is unique...
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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...
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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...
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