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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps.

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The Reading League Journal – The Perfect Storm: Mississippi’s Momentum for Improving Reading Achievement

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In 2013, Mississippi’s governor, state lawmakers, state education department officials, literacy advocates, and other stakeholders decided it was time to “Go Big.” In addition to this legislation reform, the Common Core State Standards had been adopted as the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards in 2010.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. percent of the U.S.

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The delusional ways we evaluate English learners

The Hechinger Report

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. From 2000 to 2010, the demographics in the Bluegrass State shifted dramatically: the number of English learners grew a whopping 306 percent. Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. This is exactly what Oregon did in 2013.

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How little is too little money for schools?

The Hechinger Report

When she became superintendent in 2010, one of the first decisions to cross her desk was whether to join a new suit against the state. The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. Kansas City became one of the lead plaintiffs. Our kids need these initiatives,” Smith said. Fair funding.

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‘Lesson Study’ Technique: What Teachers Can Learn From One Another

MindShift

It was 2013. She was the new principal of the O’Keeffe School of Excellence, an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side that had been struggling for years. Before that, he was an elementary school teacher in Japan. Two, they were thinking about the Common Core. That’s when Bankhead was hired.

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Using schools to bring a dying Rust Belt city back to life

The Hechinger Report

Over the last three years, the proportion of students passing Common Core-aligned national math and reading tests has inched up, growing from 3 percent to 6 percent. Leave this field empty if you're human: At Gordon Bush Elementary School, pass rates on state tests more than tripled last year. In 2010, East St.