The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 25, 2014

Today, there was this post on the Public School Forum of North Carolina website defending the Common Core. I am a skeptic about the Common Core, not because I do not believe in the need to have higher standards. The Common Core is "more rigorous than North Carolina''s previous standards."

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy. My oldest son, who’s 12 now, was born in 2009, and he kind of grew up on it. This is true online, and it's definitely true in the classroom as well. Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

Let’s look at a Common Core Language Standard 6, a standard remaining relatively constant across grades 3-13: “ Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases ” and one with relevance as a cross-disciplinary skill. To know a definition is merely Level 1. Hess (2009, updated 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The report of the NASBE Commission on Financial and Investor Literacy also offers a useful definition: “Financial literacy is defined as the ability to read, analyze, manage and communicate about the personal financial conditions that affect material well-being.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences! November 8, 2009 (21centuryedtech Article by Michael Gorman). A look at the works of Leonardo da Vinci will attest to this!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. The incident caused a great deal of furor, perhaps because it came at a moment of heightened political outcry about the Common Core State Standards and standardized testing.

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