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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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Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners: Visual Representations

N2Y

In older grade levels, visual representations are often highlighted in the first or second instructional example per the guidance of the textbook, but they are rarely emphasized as a critical part of the lesson. For example, students typically do not intuitively know how to use fraction tiles to compare fractions with unlike denominators.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards. For example, in New York State, the primary funding source for adult education is the Employment Preparation Education program.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

The Hechinger Report

In Rochester, for example, just 6.7 If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. In Syracuse, 10.9

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?How Game-Based Learning Encourages Growth Mindset

Edsurge

With Mangahigh ’s Prodigi game, for example, teachers are able to challenge and remediate students’ learning as needed—all in the same class period. Adaptive GBL platforms can help by doing the heavy lifting, handling instructional planning, delivery, and data collection in mixed ability classrooms.

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Visual Instructional Tools Are Essential When Teaching Common Core Standards

Edsurge

When I first saw the long list of my classes’ ELA Common Core Standards, I remember feeling overwhelmed and worrying about how I was going to cover all of them in a single school year. They can be a multi-column/row table, an example guide, a flow chart or Venn diagram.

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The Key to Boosting English Learners’ Language Skills? Challenging Content

MindShift

For example, the Middlebury designers had little understanding of how much language a level one ELL student has. In comparison, the Middlebury blended curriculum is grouped by overarching themes and subthemes. We worked hard to align it to the Common Core.”