Marketplace K-12

MAY 24, 2016

In a letter posted today on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s website , chief executive officer Sue Desmond-Hellman acknowledged that the group had made some miscalculations regarding implementation of the Common Core State Standards. ” She called this a “challenging lesson for us to absorb.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2014

I have not shied away from sharing my opinions on educational technology, leadership, politics, policy, and reform. Earlier this week I saw an article from NJ Spotlight titled THE LIST: NEW JERSEY'S 'EDUBLOGGERS' TALK POLICY, POLITICS -- AND TECHNOLOGY. Time to get back to my point. Whether or not I do is besides the point.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For him, it wouldnt be less rigorous either, since Californias Common Core math standards had by then incorporated more algebraic material in eighth-grade courses. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. Nevertheless, the attempt was tense.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

He also talked about how he thinks policy shifts like the implementation of the common-core standards and the adoption of “open” educational resources are likely to affect the K-12 market, and his company’s work. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps. Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. “Of

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JULY 6, 2016

How Federal ‘Open’ Education Plans Are Shaping State Policy. Creators of EngageNY Start New Archive of Free Common-Core Materials. See also : Amazon Education to Launch New Website for Open Education Resources. Why School Leaders Are Turning to ‘Open’ Educational Resources.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

It seems that in an effort to curtail criticism and the growing backlash against the "Common Core," states are simply changing the name of them, hoping to "rebrand" them. See this article entitled "Some States Customize Education Overhaul, Ditch Common Core Label." ) I would say this tactic is deceptive and ethically wrong.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 23, 2024

In critiquing the Common Core State Standards, he said, “Can’t we just get back to basics?” It bears repeating that, a little more than a century ago, policies didn’t mandate mathematics education in K-12 in the way we know now. ” In my mind, I said “Hell no!”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

In addition, state education leaders responded to the 2006 mandate by introducing a policy in 2007 that enabled students to take Algebra I over two years instead of one, neutralizing the effect of starting the course earlier. Not all districts dislike the policy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. Related: Academic expectations around the country, updated for Common Core.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Two quotes from today’s article in The Des Moines Register , Iowa Poll: Common Core not so radioactive for Iowans : Ah, the good old days. Law, Policy, and Ethics Leadership and Vision Learning and Teaching Common Core iowa learning policy teaching vision' The new bill of rights for all students.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

When I first saw the long list of my classes’ ELA Common Core Standards, I remember feeling overwhelmed and worrying about how I was going to cover all of them in a single school year. I was being asked to teach approximately 60 standards in one year, a pace that I had never tried before.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

While the teachers in my audience will probably know the difference, it does not help that the Common Core Standards are exceptionally vague about the type of digital skills students need to exhibit. So, let’s do a Marie Kondo and declutter the concepts. How computer literacy evolved into digital literacy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They weren’t exactly wrong: At the time, state policies required California community college students seeking to transfer to four-year universities to pass a college-level math course with an intermediate algebra (or Algebra 2) prerequisite.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

The moratorium ends as a federal policy on June 30, stripping away protections that have kept potentially thousands of families across the country in their homes. “We We don't have data on the actual rates of mobility,” says Chad d’Entremont, executive director of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy. “We

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you haven’t visited Ask a Tech Teacher regularly, here’s what you’ve missed: What’s a good Technology Acceptable Use Policy? 13 Ways Blogs Teach Common Core. 8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School. What’s the Classroom of the Future Look Like? Best Practices for New Teachers About Tech.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The oligarchs pushing Common Core don’t send their kids to schools that use the Common Core. Law, Policy, and Ethics Mind Dump edreform Mercedes Schneider policy' Related Posts. 9-year-olds’ tests are longer than the SAT and GRE combined. No experience is the new black.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 2, 2023

Believe it or not, this bill reminds me politically of the Common Core State Standards. But the thrust of the policy process was what they felt they could accomplish: convince every state to take this initiative on, tie it to funding of some sort, make adjustments on a local level, and see what it does for student knowledge.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

Researchers track tweets to determine how social media plays into Common Core and educational debates. A new study endeavors to uncover how social media can impact education politics and how people view those issues, especially as they relate to the Common Core State Standards. Tweet topics included testing (7.1

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

At times the cards are stacked against her because of the levels of bureaucracy, mandates, and senseless policies that are embedded elements of the NYCDOE. These issues relate to homework and Common Core implementation. Without going into much detail these isolated issues have morphed into a message that my kids hate school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill. This is best exemplified by drifts and variations in the implementation of Common Core State Standards, an initiative designed to centralize the needlessly splintered aspects of America’s educational system.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. On that point, it appears Common Core’s changes are winning out over entrenched practice. Scores from strong, medium, and non-implementers of Common Core were within a single NAEP scale score point — considered negligible.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2016

Is there a school policy on cyberbullying? . What is the school policy on children bringing cell phones and personal devices from home? There are some parents who equate EdTech with “new math” and Common Core, terms that send shudders through some segments of our population.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What results is the proliferation of an industrialized model of education that reformers claim they want to get away from, but the policies they support only help to sustain it. The structure and function of the majority of schools in this country is the exact opposite of the world that our learners are growing up in.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

A new test is positioning itself as a non-common-core alternative to the SAT and ACT. has been making its way through the conservative blogosphere, which is pitching it as a tool for families who don’t want their children taking college admissions tests that reflect the Common Core State Standards. Vector A.R.C.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

IOCS is aligned to select Common Core Curriculum standards for language arts literacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NET.S Open licenses Widening opportunity vs. improving existing systems Business models Public policy Steve also spoke about MIT OCW and fielded some questions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

The consequences of failing can include sanctions for schools and teachers, and even school closure, and now the standards are more rigorous with 40-plus states having adopted the Common Core State Standards. The post Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? education reform since the 1990s.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 9, 2016

Teachers of math and English/language arts in states following the common-core standards are playing a strong role in developing or selecting the classroom resources they use, a report has found. Kaufman, a policy researcher at RAND and co-author of the report. English Teachers Want Skill-Specific Resources.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a term that first saw a spotlight during the Obama administration, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and company wanted to integrate the Common Core State Standards into our schools. In recent times, the term “college and career ready” has come back into trend.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Is it established by district policy or is each teacher encouraged to pick their own? For Common Core schools: How do they prepare students to succeed with online testing? End-of-year assessments of the Common Core grade-level standards are delivered online. This isn’t an uncommon concern. Such as cell phones.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

What’s striking is that this success story has occurred against the backdrop of so many major high-profile education initiatives floundering across the nation—Common Core and accountability come to mind—and amidst significant political turbulence in the Tar Heel state.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Common Core, Race to the Top, and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—just a few top-down, often-controversial, metrics-heavy K-12 reform initiatives favored by the Obama Administration that seemed to have a lot more traction during the President’s first-term with Education Secretary Arne Duncan at the helm than during the second term.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

What is exciting to teachers is what they call C-Span Classroom, where free video-based lesson plans and bell ringers are provided on topical and historical subjects such as AP US Government, civil rights, comparative government, financial literacy, environmental policy, federalism, foreign policy, and more. Explore.org.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All students in the district take Common Core Math 6, 7 and 8. The policy shift began in earnest five years ago. By contrast, the first group of students who took Common Core Math 8 in eighth grade and Algebra 1 for the first time in ninth grade (and who graduated earlier this year) had an Algebra 1 repeat rate of 8 percent.

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