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In Texas, new math standards look a whole lot like Common Core

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The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. It’s actually illegal to teach Common Core in Texas. to Common Core, the new math standards here are pretty similar to the standards the state rejected, experts say.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Common Core Standards recognize the importance of this skill by addressing it in over 29 Standards, at every grade level from Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade. For example, using the book report scenario, discuss these with students: What are the basics of each reporting method?

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

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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. The post Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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What Happens When Technology Fails? 3 Work-Arounds

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What about when we ask students to use one of the gazillion available internet tools to communicate-collaborate-share-publish–those exciting Common Core words that are code for ‘technology-rich’ Now, when students don’t turn in homework, and I attempt to unravel what happened with questions like ‘Where did you save it?

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Writing 2.0: Technology-Rich Approach to Common Core Writing

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Common Core writing requires students to create and publish writing online, and to interact and collaborate with others. We shared a plethora of ideas and examples of technology-rich writing in the presentation below. Here''s an example: Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address. Writing is a huge piece of literacy.

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Kentucky thoroughly sold it’s educators on Common Core. How?

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Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. Related: Academic expectations around the country, updated for Common Core.

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The Limits of Curriculum Choice

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But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.