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Who or What Hates Common Core?

Edsurge

A team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has been digging deeply into social media data to examine the roots of the public dialogue around Common Core. Next up on the PJNet agenda?

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Let’s Make Math Education Relevant for Real Life

Edsurge

In it, students collected survey data in their neighborhoods on issues such as youth gangs or discrimination against immigrants, learned statistical methods to analyze that data, and presented their findings to their local community. But math educators indicate that these topics often get short shrift. The only problem?

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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. Also, who knows, the scheme might ultimately bring about some positive change in education.

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A STEM-Driven Marble Run Using Instructables and Tinkercad

User Generated Education

Our district works to identify students often underrepresented in gifted education programs. Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success. Students: 1.4.a.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.

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Education check-up: Computer science, Common Core, and Millenials’ skills

eSchool News

In this week’s news: Shocking data reveals Millennials lacking skills across board. International data sets show U.S. Programs between the education, business communities help students become engaged in computer science courses from a younger age. 10 building blocks of early childhood education.

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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.