12.12.12 John Wood The Common Core State Standards Are Not Curriculum (Nor Are They a Definition of Readiness) 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... Read more
12.4.12 John Wood When to Transition to Common Core? 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... Read more
11.29.12 John Wood Will the Common Core Redefine Teaching? 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... Read more
11.13.12 John Wood Will Common Core State Standards Deliver Lower Test Scores? 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... Read more
