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Global Competencies and the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

I attended a session at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference early on Saturday morning entitled Common Core and Curriculum 21: Global Competency in Literacy, Math, and Science. The presenter discussed how many elements of the 21st Century Skills movement influenced the development of the Common Core Standards.

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

The Hechinger Report

But this year, New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio needed its best teachers to help younger students get ready for a new set of math standards Texas adopted in 2012, so Demore switched to elementary school. The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps.

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How the first Common Core state is seeing faster student gains

Insight Education Group

Kentucky has been in the news a lot in recent years when it comes to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). And by the spring of 2012, after the first CCSS-based tests were administered, headlines drew attention to the significant drop in proficiency ratings - almost 30% - from the year before.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

Depth of understanding was hailed by its architects as a cornerstone of the Common Core, a set of educational guidelines for what students need to know in each grade in English and math that have been adopted in 43 states and the District of Columbia. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S.

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School Is Hard for Mobile Students. These Districts Want to Help.

Edsurge

The Five District Partnership , which includes Chelsea, was formed in 2012. And those changes can disrupt student learning. The introduction of Common Core standards in 2012 meant that school leaders were already reshaping their curricula, and open to more ambitious changes, when they started to collaborate.

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Some Good Close Reading Resources for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Since its adoption by the Common Core State Standards, close reading came to the forefront in educational studies generating some heated debates among educators and pedagogues (see Gewertz, 2012.read read more