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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

The Hechinger Report

On a recent Tuesday, she stood at the back of her cluttered third-grade math classroom, presiding over a set of scales weighed down on one side with two textbooks — 1 kilogram total. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. SAN ANTONIO — Karen Demore booms.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

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After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. Inkeri, you’ve been teaching for 15 years.

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The Science of Reading and Early Childhood Literacy

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A leading researcher of early language development and its connection to literacy, Dr. Hollis Scarborough was a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories and in 2001, she developed and published what has become known as Scarborough’s Reading Rope. Scarborough’s Reading Rope. It provides an excellent visual of how the Science of Reading works.

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Better tests don’t lead to better teaching, study finds

The Hechinger Report

public school children in 2001, educators (and parents) have fretted over whether too much class time has been allocated to drilling and preparing students for standardized tests. And, even if you could be a fly on the wall in every classroom in America, one person’s view of a good lesson might differ from another’s.

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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

The Hechinger Report

Annual testing of students became a federal requirement after 2001, and that sometimes affected instruction. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. Then, nearly all U.S.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

Georgia Test Prep

These tests determine if the student has understood the curriculum as per state standards, because they are pegged to Georgia’s new academic standards, which are guided by the Common Core, a national consensus of what each child should learn in each grade level.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

The Hechinger Report

Its grades 3-8 English language arts curriculum was created in response to a call from Engage NY , the state agency that spearheaded the adoption of Common Core learning standards. Related: Common Core standards shake up the education business. That boy, Chaffee explained, spends much of his day in a special classroom.