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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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How to boost math skills in the early grades

The Hechinger Report

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. —

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6

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How to Boost Math Skills in the Early Grades

MindShift

It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. Although Illinois adopted Common Core standards in 2010, Berwyn North, a kindergarten through eighth-grade district with 3,084 students , had not yet incorporated the standards when Ayala and her new assistant superintendent, Amy Zaher, were hired in 2012.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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Learning materials and resources that can be displayed on a digital device and shared electronically with other users. Information about how digital learning content assesses, teaches, and depends on (requires) common content standards such as State academic standards. Turning around our lowest-achieving schools.