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Second-graders suspended for pointing pencils at each other

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 22, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- Have you heard about the two 7- year-old boys who were suspended from school for pointing pencils at each other while making shooting sounds?

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[Skip Fennell] Math Specialists Get Ready Now: Common Core Assessments Are Coming

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.mathrecap.com (Views: 68, Clicks: 24)
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For this presentation,Skip Fennell and Jon Wray looked at the upcoming Common Core assessments, PARCC and Smarter Balanced (SB), and suggested ways math specialists can help teachers prepare for the tests.

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Kiowa language children's book published

Buldog sumitted ago via http://www.nativetimes.com (Views: 30, Clicks: 5)
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A goal Modina (Toppah) Water set 12 years ago came to fruition Monday at the annual Native American Language Fair held at the Sam Noble Museum in Norman. The bi-lingual book of Kiowa trickster stories she created was finally published and in the hands of Kiowa and other Native children.

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Units, a Unifying Idea in Measurement, Fractions, and Base Ten

nitajo sumitted ago via http://commoncoretools.me (Views: 58, Clicks: 17)
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Think about a 4-by-5 rectangle. The rectangle contains infinitely many points you could never count them. But once you decide that a 1-by-1 square is going to be “one unit of area,” you are able to say that a 4-by-5 rectangle amounts to twenty of these units. A choice of unit makes the uncountable countable.

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Math Think-Alouds

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.scholastic.com (Views: 32, Clicks: 5)
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Innovative ways to add math into daily activities!

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How The Common Core Is Changing Math Instruction For Indiana’s Youngest Students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 41, Clicks: 15)
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Indiana’s youngest students are learning math in a different way than their parents or even older siblings. That’s because the new Common Core academic standards have changed how teachers introduce math in the early grades.

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Popular Curriculum Targets Elementary Students

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 37, Clicks: 4)
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Erik W. Robelen -- Bioengineering. Mechanical engineering. Environmental engineering. Aerospace engineering. Not exactly standard fare in elementary school, but several million children have been exposed to such fields through the fast-growing Engineering Is Elementary program since it was launched in 2004 by the Museum of Science in Boston. Its overarching goal is to "foster engineering and technological literacy among all elementary-aged children."

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Cursive writing at risk in U.S. schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://normantranscript.com (Views: 69, Clicks: 5)
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The use of cursive writing has been fading from society since the arrival of the computer keyboard. Advocates of longhand blame the so-called common core education standards for hastening its demise. Debate over the issue has pitted teachers against teachers, and a fear by historians we are raising a generation of handwriting illiterates.

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Bill mandating cursive instruction clears NC House

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nbcnews.com (Views: 28, Clicks: 5)
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Starting this fall, all North Carolina elementary students would be required to learn cursive writing and multiplication tables if the state Senate adopts a bill that passed the House unanimously Thursday.

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Bill mandating cursive instruction clears N.C. House

nitajo sumitted ago via http://hamptonroads.com (Views: 60, Clicks: 5)
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Starting this fall, all North Carolina elementary students would be required to learn cursive writing and multiplication tables if the state Senate adopts a bill that passed the House unanimously Thursday. Under the bill, public schools will have to provide instruction in both subjects in what its sponsor calls a return to basics.

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States draw a hard line on third-graders, holding some back over reading

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://articles.washingtonpost.com (Views: 38, Clicks: 4)
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A growing number of states are drawing a hard line in elementary school, requiring children to pass a reading test in third grade or be held back from fourth grade. Thirteen states last year adopted laws that require schools to identify, intervene and, in many cases, retain students who fail a reading proficiency test by the end of third grade.

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Give Math a Thumbs-Up! Gestures Boost Learning, Study Finds

Sculb sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 37, Clicks: 5)
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Sarah D. Sparks -- Math often can feel a little abstract to students, but teachers who gesture as they explain equations can make them more concrete for students, according to a study published online in the journal Child Development.

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Debate ongoing for read or fail

nitajo sumitted ago via http://normantranscript.com (Views: 33, Clicks: 7)
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Oklahoma’s reading act was passed in the 1990s mainly to provide funding to help first- and third-grade students improve reading skills. In 2011, lawmakers added test-based promotion. Starting in 2014, third-graders who score “unsatisfactory” on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test for reading will be held back unless they are given an exemption.

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Study: Read-or-fail law would flunk high percent of Oklahoma 3rd-graders

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 98, Clicks: 17)
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Sand Springs principal Angie Teas grapples with a sobering fact: Nearly 40 percent of her third-grade students would have flunked last year if Oklahoma's read-or-fail law had been in effect.

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The Common Core War (What is it good for?)

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edexcellence.net (Views: 35, Clicks: 5)
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In the latest dust-up over the Common Core, the inclusion of some (arguably) violent, war-themed picture books in New York City’s third-grade English curriculum has some whining that the recommended texts were not vetted properly—and, predictably, claiming that implementation is moving too fast.

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Second-graders suspended for pointing pencils at each other

[Skip Fennell] Math Specialists Get Ready Now: Common Core Assessments Are Coming

Kiowa language children's book published

Units, a Unifying Idea in Measurement, Fractions, and Base Ten

Math Think-Alouds

How The Common Core Is Changing Math Instruction For Indiana’s Youngest Students

Popular Curriculum Targets Elementary Students

Cursive writing at risk in U.S. schools

Bill mandating cursive instruction clears NC House

Bill mandating cursive instruction clears N.C. House

States draw a hard line on third-graders, holding some back over reading

Give Math a Thumbs-Up! Gestures Boost Learning, Study Finds

Debate ongoing for read or fail

Study: Read-or-fail law would flunk high percent of Oklahoma 3rd-graders

The Common Core War (What is it good for?)

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