Common Core
Can Higher Standards Survive?
Does the political will exist to maintain higher standards? And does the capacity exist in K–12 education to raise significant numbers of American children to meet these standards?
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Losing the Ability to Compare Academic Performance Across States
The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, but just 21 states are currently still participating in the two assessment “consortia.”
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Common Core Not Dead Yet
Aided by a highly misleading New York Times article, the anti-Common Core crowd is pushing the narrative that Massachusetts’s recent testing decision spells the end for the common standards effort.
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Has Common Core Influenced Instruction?
Advocates of the Common Core hope that the standards will eventually produce long term positive effects as educators learn how to use them. That’s a reasonable hypothesis. But it should now be apparent that a counter-hypothesis has equal standing: any positive effect of adopting Common Core may have already occurred.
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Should NAEP Tests Be Updated to Reflect What’s in the Common Core?
It’s critical that NAEP’s math (and reading and writing) frameworks not flex with recent changes in standards, curriculum or pedagogical emphasis.
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So Far Only Ohio is Backing Off A High Standard for Proficiency
Outside of Ohio, most states are living up to their commitments to provide more honest information to parents. A key promise of the Common Core is being kept.
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Do New Common Core Test Results Tell Us Anything New?
What do new assessments aligned to the Common Core tell us? Not much more than what we already knew.
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The Real Battle for Common Core Begins
An examination of assignments given by middle school teachers appears to show that most of the work asked of students does not reflect the higher, more rigorous standards set by Common Core.
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Politicians Couldn’t Agree on a “Common” Yardstick for Schools. Statisticians Created One Anyway.
SchoolGrades uses the results of state tests to create a comparable, A-F grading system for all public elementary and middle schools in the U.S.
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The Common Core Test Wake-Up Call Is Here
Parents will soon receive for the first time their children’s scores on new tests aligned to the standards. The news is expected to be sobering.
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