Academic Standards Common Core Elementary Report 
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MAY 21, 2016
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. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.
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AUGUST 1, 2016
Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy.
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MAY 22, 2016
As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Martin said schools around Kentucky are doing a good job of helping English learners both grasp the language and keep up academically.
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JULY 8, 2018
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. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.
MindShift
JULY 9, 2018
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BERWYN, Ill. —
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FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. While students have lots of time to play, they also learn traditional and rigorous academic material during the school year. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. EVERETT, Wash. — Sara Stevens teaches a lesson to her kindergarteners.
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APRIL 3, 2019
I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.
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