Mathetude » Stories posted by Skinner

Post a new Story

Skinner space stories appleed badded comments friends collections groups

Stories posted by Skinner with tag common core state standards

Sort by

Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students

Skinner sumitted ago via http://neatoday.org (Views: 7, Clicks: 2)
View Story

Cindy Long -- As the Common Core debate heats up, we’ve heard a lot from policy makers, politicians, and even TV talk show hosts about the challenges posed by the new standards and whether they’ll help or hurt education. With all the chatter, the voices of the professionals who are actually responsible for implementing the Common Core have been all but drowned out in the mainstream media.

2 comments | Tags: national education association common core state standards controversy | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

The break-things-into-bits mistake we have been making in education for centuries – happening today with standards

Skinner sumitted ago via http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com (Views: 70, Clicks: 22)
View Story

This problem of turning everything into “microstandards” is a problem of long standing in education. One might even say it is the original sin in curriculum design. Take a complex whole, divide into the simplest and most reductionist bits, string them together and call it a curriculum. Though well-intentioned, it leads to fractured, boring, and useless learning of superficial bits.

0 comments | Tags: common core state standards grant wiggins math publisher’s criteria parcc | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

The Common Core Standards: a Defense

Skinner sumitted ago via http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com (Views: 27, Clicks: 4)
View Story

Grant Wiggins -- Tis the season to bash the Common Core – to the point of some over the top heated rhetoric. Let’s remind ourselves why the Common Core is just common sense.

2 comments | Tags: common core state standards controversy grant wiggins national assessment of educational progress | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Adaptive Testing Evolves to Assess Common-Core Skills

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 22, Clicks: 5)
View Story

Michelle R. Davis -- When Delaware switched to computer-adaptive testing for its state assessments three years ago, officials found the results were available more quickly, the amount of time students spent taking tests decreased, and the tests provided more reliable information about what students knew—especially those at the very low and high ends of the spectrum.

1 comments | Tags: michelle r. davis common core state standards assessments computer-adaptive testing delaware | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

CCSS: Population 7 Billion

Skinner sumitted ago via http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com (Views: 28, Clicks: 5)
View Story

There will soon be seven billion people on the planet. By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?

0 comments | Tags: common core state standards algebra modeling human population growth teacher resources | Topic: Secondary BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

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

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.usnews.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 5)
View Story

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.

1 comments | Tags: common core state standards controversy new york america achieves | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

States Pull Back From Common Core Standards

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.usnews.com (Views: 31, Clicks: 4)
View Story

Lawmakers in some states hope to halt the transition to the Common Core State Standards, even as school districts across the country are rolling them out.

1 comments | Tags: common core state standards controversy alabama parental involvement | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

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

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edexcellence.net (Views: 35, Clicks: 5)
View Story

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.

0 comments | Tags: common core state standards new york city ela | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Sequestration, Common Core, Waivers Dominate Chiefs' Meeting

Skinner sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 38, Clicks: 4)
View Story

Andrew Ujifusa -- To open the Council of Chief State School Officers' meeting here in the nation's capital today, the group's executive director, Chris Minnich, tried a bit of grim humor: "Welcome to Washington, D.C., where everything works smoothly and efficiently."

1 comments | Tags: sequestration sequester andrew ujifusa council of chief state school officers common core state standards | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Should Kindergarteners Be Writing? How Common Core Is Dividing Early Educators

Skinner sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 43, Clicks: 4)
View Story

This is the second year kindergarten teachers in Indiana have taught to the Common Core, a set of nationally-crafted academic standards adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Under the new standards, kids are supposed to be able to compose basic, explanatory texts by the time they leave kindergarten.

1 comments | Tags: indiana common core state standards kindergarten explanatory texts edward miller | Topic: Early Childhood BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

How Indiana’s Academic Standards Stack Up Against The Common Core

Skinner sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 43, Clicks: 5)
View Story

A proposal to withdraw Indiana from the Common Core — a nationally-crafted set of academic standards already adopted in 45 other states and the District of Columbia — will get a lengthy hearing before the Senate Education Committee Wednesday.

2 comments | Tags: indiana common core state standards parental involvement thomas b. fordham foundation massachusetts | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Indiana: How Teachers Are Explaining Common Core Standards To Students & Parents

Skinner sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 77, Clicks: 33)
View Story

Indiana students aren’t the only ones adjusting to the Common Core, a set of nationally-crafted academic standards adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Their teachers have been tasked with explaining key changes of the new standards not just to students but to parents, too.

0 comments | Tags: indiana common core state standards parental involvement thomas b. fordham foundation | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

CCSS: Cutting to the chase

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edexcellence.net (Views: 50, Clicks: 15)
View Story

Chester E. Finn, Jr. -- As the U.S. education world eagerly awaits more information about the new assessments that two consortia of states are developing to accompany the Common Core standards, dozens of perplexing and important questions have arisen: Once the federal grants run out, how will these activities be financed? What will it cost states and districts to participate? Who will govern and manage these massive testing programs? What about the technology infrastructure? The list goes on.

1 comments | Tags: common core state standards chester e. finn jr. thomas b. fordham institute | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

CCSS: Testing Group Scales Back Performance Items

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 67, Clicks: 7)
View Story

Catherine Gewertz -- A group that is developing tests for half the states in the nation has dramatically reduced the length of its assessment in a bid to balance the desire for a more meaningful and useful exam with concerns about the amount of time spent on testing.

2 comments | Tags: catherine gewertz common core state standards smarter balanced assessment consortium assessments performance tasks | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

The Coming Storm for Common Standards: Public Knowledge?

Skinner sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 44, Clicks: 4)
View Story

Catherine Gewertz -- It's taken more than two years for the Common Core State Standards to trickle down into schools and classrooms in a significant way. So it's no surprise, then, that a recent poll found that most people know nothing about the standards. But when public knowledge of the new guidelines becomes more widespread, what level of support will they have?

0 comments | Tags: catherine gewertz common core state standards parental involvement pennsylvania | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

Add to Quicklist

Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com | Not valid XHTML yet but working on it :-) | Powered by

and Mathetude's community.

Version 0.4.2 - Best view with both eyes open. We recommend