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As I wrote last week, the final Next Generation Science Standards were released on April 9, 2013. Of course, the question everyone is asking is: “What happens now?” For many of the biggest “what now?” topics, including adoption by states, implementation by schools, and eventual assessments for the standards, there are still many unknowns but [...]
After nearly two years of effort by the lead states, the writing teams, and Achieve, the final Next Generation Science Standards were released on April 9, 2013. Congratulations to all involved on reaching this historic milestone! These standards are significant because they have the potential to affect what over half of the nation’s K-12 students [...]
On October 9, 2012, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium released 47 sample items and performance tasks for Language Arts and Mathematics. Up until that point, as noted in an earlier blog, finding item samples from Smarter Balanced was a little like finding a needle in a haystack. The item samples they just released are much [...]
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With the adoption of the Common Core Standards by several states, teachers are concerned with the implementation of these standards into their instruction. The Library of Congress (LOC) is available to help. The Library of Congress (LOC) already has free primary resources for teachers on its Teacher Resources page. On this page, teachers can access [...]
Editor’s note: Compass Learning curriculum expert and former educator, George Rislov, was recently interviewed by We Are Teachers for their webcast series. The topic of discussion: Common Core assessments. Q: How do you think the Common Core is going to change assessment? A: Great question. Before I attempt to answer that I’ll issue a caveat [...]
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