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Questions about the questions on new Common Core tests

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Valerie Strauss -- Critics say there are problems with some of the questions on the new tests just given to students in New York.

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Have standardized tests really helped kids learn more?

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Valerie Strauss -- An award-winning principal looks at the growing resistance to standardized testing in New York and beyond.

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First day of state Common Core math tests a relief, teachers say

nitajo sumitted ago via http://gothamschools.org (Views: 21, Clicks: 4)
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All’s quiet on the Common Core math test front, for now. After last week’s state reading tests drew sharp criticism, anxiety ran high as students headed into the first of three days of math testing today. But educators are saying the first day was uneventful — and possibly even easier than they expected

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Common Core Standards Are a 'Heavy Lift' for Districts, Educators

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.usnews.com (Views: 37, Clicks: 5)
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Implementing the Common Core State Standards will be challenging—but not impossible—according to experts speaking in New York this week at the Education Nation summit, part of an NBC News initiative.

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Common Core: What's It All For?

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 29, Clicks: 4)
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Ilana Garon -- Now, having rigorous standards is great. I have no problem with this. However, teachers received minimal instruction about how to better implement these standards in their lessons; most were sent to a workshop for a few days, and then expected to immediately change years of instruction in order to fit with the newly designed (and often extremely dense) tables and charts that make up the CCSS.

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Just How 'Wink-Wink' Was a Deal on N.Y. Teacher Evaluations?

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 27, Clicks: 4)
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Andrew Ujifusa -- The New York State Education Department is upset because it believes at least one district subverted state law by reaching a sotto voce, improper agreement with its teachers' union that new evaluations wouldn't lead to teachers getting fired.

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This Teacher Supports Common Core, Opposes Tests

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 54, Clicks: 6)
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New York teacher writes about Common Core hopes and testing realities.

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Standardized test questions that don't count

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 51, Clicks: 5)
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Valerie Strauss -- Parents and students may not know this, but all of the questions kids have to answer on standardized tests don't actually count. Here's why.

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New standardized tests feature plugs for commercial products

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 81, Clicks: 7)
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Valerie Strauss -- And now, commercials on new high-stakes standardized tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

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Rockville Centre has NY State's Principal of Year - Carol Burris

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.schoolleadership20.com (Views: 53, Clicks: 5)
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Carol Burris has been named the state's 2013 High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York, selected in part for her efforts to provide every student with a challenging curriculum.

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Principal warns parents: 'Don't buy the bunk' about Common Core tests

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 37, Clicks: 5)
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Valerie Strauss, -- Parents will soon be told whether their children are "on the road" to college readiness based on cut scores on tests of the new Common Core standards. But there is no evidence the scores will have any meaning.

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Common-Core Curricula Spark Teacher Resistance

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 66, Clicks: 4)
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Catherine Gewertz -- New York is ahead of most states in its work to design detailed curricula and professional development for the common core and to build brand-new tests to reflect them. What's unfolding in the Empire State as a result of that work illustrates the way the common standards can pressure changes in the education landscape, and torque the tensions involved in a deep reworking of curriculum and instruction.

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Principal Sees Course Rigor as Basis for Common-Core Readiness

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 41, Clicks: 4)
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As schools in 46 states begin implementing the Common Core State Standards in earnest, many educators are wrestling with the question of how to get students who are falling short of existing standards somehow to leap over the new, higher bar. Veteran principal Carol Burris believes she has an answer: Make their classes harder.

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'Storm of reform' -- the damage done

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 3)
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Valerie Strauss -- An award-winning principal who came out against the Common Core details further the disconnect between the standards and childhood development.

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