Supporters say Common Core prepares students for college and for global competition better than earlier state standards.
Common Core creates a huge opportunity for innovation and personalization and the implementation of a competency-based learning system.
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Tuesday, Common Core was dealt a blow by one of its staunchest supporters.
Teachers learned how to use data from newly adopted assessments to design differentiated instruction based on Common Core standards.
Consider now how we are implementing the Common Core assessments: summative assessments to measure what percentage of students failed.
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Most states have yet to roll out Common Core tests, but most have said they will do so by 2015.
The new recently adopted common core standards for K-to-12 mathematics by some 40 states is a good step in the right direction.
This last school year I worked on Math Common Core enrichment tasks.
The firm unites its disparate businesses through leveraging a common core of semiconductor components, a field in which it holds a strong position.
The tougher tests awaiting New York's third-through-eighth-graders are aligned with the Common Core standards, a national set of guidelines intended to boost academic rigor.
In New York City, the largest public school system in the nation, schools are ordering Common Core-aligned materials now for the upcoming school year.
Forty out of 50 states in the United States have adopted the Common Core curriculum, which phases out cursive writing in the classroom, for their public schools.
No state has completely pulled out of Common Core, but Utah and Alabama have backed out of the consortium of states working to create computer-based Common Core exams.
With school performance measures, common core standards and value-added learning now being accepted into the community mainstream, perhaps new consumer choices for pupils, parents and taxpayers will expand.
Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
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Fears that 2013 scores will plummet are based partly on the example of Kentucky, where 30 percent fewer students were labeled proficient based on last year's Common Core-aligned tests.
In Kentucky, the first state to replace state exams with tests based on Common Core, the percentage of students meeting math and reading goals dropped by about one-third last year.
Ashley Hebda, an English teacher at George Washington Community High School in Indianapolis and a supporter of Common Core, said the fight over standards is causing "massive confusion" in classrooms.
The News tablets will come loaded with material from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a K-12 curriculum developed by a broad coalition of education experts and supported by most states.
The Common Core State Standards seek to align diverse state curricula in K-12 education in the US. Today each state defines their own standards, curricula and textbooks in an independent manner.
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The adoption of the common core by 46 states and the District of Columbia provided a unique opportunity to deliver key financial knowledge to our children through everyday math and reading classes.
Heather Crossin learned of Common Core in the fall of 2011 when her daughter brought home a math book linked to the standards that she found to be weaker than the previous textbook.
Indeed, Common Core and competency-based learning should be a natural fit, as the former creates learning maps for students to master that can shift the emphasis from time to mastery of deeper learning.
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Teachers received practice tests aligned with the Common Core last summer and fall so they could begin preparing their students, but many districts don't yet have the necessary books and materials to teach them.
Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.
Common Core grew from an effort by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create a list of college- and career-ready skills that students should possess before high-school graduation.
Nearly every state in the U.S. is adopting some form of the standards, known as the Common Core State Standards, but New York is one of the first states testing students on the changed content.
Mr. Johnson said he thought there were "serious problems" with the test, in large part because teachers are just beginning to learn the approach required under the new benchmarks, known nationally as the Common Core State Standards.
The state Education Department says the 2013 test questions will be more advanced and students will be challenged to perform more complex tasks in line with the Common Core standards that have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.
Academics also are hopeful that there soon will be greater national consistency in how English learners are identified and how proficiency is defined through the Common Core standards and assessments, a set of uniform benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.
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