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What Are the Real Motives Behind the Common Core State Standards? Let's Be Honest with Ourselves!

The 21st Century Principal

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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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

The Hechinger Report

Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. Yet it’s hard to determine from looking at the state’s testing data how successful schools have been in closing the achievement gap between these students and their peers since Common Core was implemented.

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Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided play, they can learn just as much in some domains of literacy and executive function as children who receive direct instruction from a teacher or adult.

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Want to Code on an IPad? Here are 3 Great Apps

Ask a Tech Teacher

Let’s go to Webster’s definition instead: The act or job of creating computer programs. This complicated definition is why–historically–programming, IT, and Computer Science have been of interest only to the geekiest of kids. Not much better. To techies, ‘programming’ or ‘coding’ is.

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If We Could Write 10,000 Words.

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

English teachers are the jacks of all trades in the academic world: we juggle reading, writing, analysis, standardized testing with a myriad of texts and techniques. Multitasking is definitely not the answer for cooking or writing. I have this song in my head now while trying to conclude this post. Off to finish dinner! )

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Technofy Your Vocabulary Instruction from Shaelynn Farnsworth

EdTechTeacher

It is also a part of the Common Core State Standards, based off of the work of Isabel Beck. Fast – Use fast instruction when an easy definition or analogy will build on knowledge the students already have. Alicia wanted ideas for blending sound vocabulary instruction with intentional technology.

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States Setting Higher Expectations for Their Tests

Marketplace K-12

The analysis, by Achieve and the Collaborative for Student Success , is the second this week to report that states are setting performance expectations in math and English/language arts that are closer to those on the NAEP. .” States Grapple With Common-Core Test Cutoffs.