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How the Common Core Changed Standardized Testing
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How is Policy Affecting Classroom Instruction?
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Is Common Core Working? It May Be Too Early to Tell
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New York’s Reading Standards Rewrite Should Alarm Parents
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Nine Times Diane Ravitch Was Wrong About Common Core in the New York Times
This weekend, education historian and Common Core-opponent Diane Ravitch railed against the standards and assessments in a New York Times op-ed.
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Can High Standards and Accountability Co-Exist? Lessons From the Common Core Assessment Consortia
It’s easy for policymakers and the public to embrace high standards in principle. But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.
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What Teachers Think of Common Core Math
Most teachers are partial to the Common Core math standards, but they don’t think all of their students and their parents are.
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Gates’ Common-Core Mea Culpa and the School Reform Divide
Given that the problems with Common Core were predictable, why did they catch so many advocates off-guard?
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Common Core’s Major Political Challenges for the Remainder of 2016
Common Core is now several years into implementation. Supporters have had a difficult time persuading skeptics that any positive results have occurred. The best evidence has been mixed on that question.
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