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Common Core: Sound Education Practice or Bad Gamble?

The 21st Century Principal

Now that 45 states (and 3 territories) have adopted the Common Core Standards, edu-preneurs and opportunists have gone into overdrive, churning out tons of materials, programs, and trainings to help schools and school districts implement these standards. I know those who developed and have been trying to sell the Common Core mean well.

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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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Let Students Learn From Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

Common Core expect students to write-edit-resubmit. The Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice is a good starting point. They are as likely to meet failure as success in their lives; show them your authentic, granular approach to addressing that eventuality. What’s the Mulligan Rule? Any golfers?

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How Can a Student Be ‘Proficient’ in One State But Not Another? Here Are the Graphs

Edsurge

They then estimated NAEP equivalent scores for the exams and mapped the outcomes onto a graph depicting how their proficiency levels measured in comparison. Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scale, Source: U.S. This is a surprising achievement given how states have historically bucked national standards alignment propositions.

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Film & the Back Channel

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

We compare and contrast the cinematography of Zeffirelli''s R&J (1968) with West Side Story (1961) in the opening brawl sequence--there really is no comparison, WSS is amazing-- and focus on how the filmmakers used the source material of Shakespeare''s play, meeting Common Core Standard 9-10.9.

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Best Practices for Teaching Math to Unique Learners: Visual Representations

N2Y

They need their teacher to set up structured opportunities for them to explore fraction comparison with these manipulatives. It is designed to meet the needs of learners with diverse communication and cognitive needs and pairs math vocabulary, math symbols, and pictorial representations in every lesson.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “common” standards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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