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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

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Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. A student in a high school just outside of New York City. Meanwhile, younger grades continued to post progress.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. Parents are engaged via student activity reports on school-owned devices. ” 1:1 + Common Core = $$$$$. All Common Core testing will be done online.

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Study analyzes NAEP, Common Core math alignment

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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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COLUMN: How can we improve math education in America? Help us count the ways

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“There are kids who can be successful in math, but the opportunities are not there for them,” Ross told me, in an eye-opening conversation that came in response to a survey The Hechinger Report sent to our readers last month. “I Help us count the ways appeared first on The Hechinger Report. And I have been looking for four decades.

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OPINION: Middle school math is a unique problem that needs more attention

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But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers, reported achievement trends by comparing each new year’s eighth graders to the previous year’s eighth graders. David Scarlett Wakelyn is a former math teacher who helped develop the Common Core State Standards while at the National Governors Association.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

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In 2010, the Commonwealth ditched English and math standards that were a model for other states in favor of weaker national standards known as the Common Core. In the decade before the Common Core was implemented, Massachusetts NAEP reading scores rose by 0.25 Academic standards were the next to go. points each year.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.