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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. Higher Education. A student in a high school just outside of New York City. Choose as many as you like.

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Understanding Standardized Assessments that Test Depth of Knowledge

eSpark

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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

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The studies that were excluded did not fit the review’s criteria of assessing child learning and development outcomes.) Last year, a report by the LEGO Foundation that looked at 26 studies of play from 18 countries found play is so powerful it can reduce inequality and close achievement gaps between children ages 3 to 6.

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Understanding Standardized Assessments that Test Depth of Knowledge

eSpark

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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Renaissance Launches Major Updates to Star Spanish Assessments

eSchool News

Renaissance, the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has enhanced Star Spanish , its assessment platform for students who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish, with new reports and the first authentic K–12 learning progression for Spanish available in the country. For more information, visit www.renaissance.com.

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Study analyzes NAEP, Common Core math alignment

eSchool News

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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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. Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. “Of