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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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OPINION: Middle school math is a unique problem that needs more attention

The Hechinger Report

The rhetoric and policy of “accelerate, don’t remediate” makes sense when students are a year to a year and a half below grade level. David Scarlett Wakelyn is a former math teacher who helped develop the Common Core State Standards while at the National Governors Association. He is a partner at Union Square Learning.

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The Ripple Effects of Resilience

MIND Research Institute

The very first Standard for Mathematical Practice in the common core speaks of helping students be able to "make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.". Additional Resources: Core Competencies of Social Emotional Learning. SEL in Elementary Mathematics. Productive Struggle in Mathematics.

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

Edsurge

In fact, for superintendent Dr. Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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

The Hechinger Report

But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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Over 40 STEAM Resources… Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Over 40 STEAM Resources… Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020. It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The next concept involves “getting real about STEM. Pink stressed that STEM must include the Arts because students must be taught to see.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?

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