What Is The Common Core

Author : Nicholas Tampio
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424649
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Core written by Nicholas Tampio and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Common Core standardizes our kids’ education—and how it threatens our democracy. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative book, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits. To make his case, Tampio describes the history, philosophy, content, and controversy surrounding the Common Core standards for English language arts and math. He also explains and critiques the Next Generation Science Standards, the Advanced Placement US History curriculum framework, and the National Sexuality Education Standards. Though each set of standards has admirable elements, Tampio asserts that democracies should disperse education authority rather than entrust one political or pedagogical faction to decide the country’s entire philosophy of education. Ultimately, this lively and accessible book presents a compelling case that the greater threat to democratic education comes from centralized government control rather than from local education authorities.

Author : Robert J. Marzano
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 0985890215
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment written by Robert J. Marzano and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You’ll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning. Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts and mathematics.

Author : Lucy Calkins
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325043555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways to the Common Core written by Lucy Calkins and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Reading and Writing Project have helped thousands of educators design their own pathways to the Common Core. Now, with Pathways to the Common Core, they are ready to help you find your way. Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, Pathways to the Common Core will help you: understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don't say; recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards; identify how the Common Core's infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled. In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school.--

Author : Gretchen Owocki
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 : 9780325042930
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Core Lesson Book, K-5 written by Gretchen Owocki and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of instruction is the most important factor in helping students meet the Common Core Standards. That's why Owocki's "Common Core Lesson Book" empowers teachers with a comprehensive framework for implementation that enhances existing curriculum and extends it to meet Common Core goals.

Author : Jim Burke
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452276587
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12 written by Jim Burke and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a high school teacher, no need to despair. Jim Burke has created a Common Core Companion for you, too, as your one-stop guide across subjects.

Author : Amanda Ripley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145165443X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smartest Kids in the World written by Amanda Ripley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.

Author : Great Minds
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118812468
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Core Curriculum: English, Grades 9-12 written by Great Minds and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Core's English resources empower educators to meet the expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) and build essential content knowledge for students in grades 9-12. Each grade in The Wheatley Portfolio features a comprehensive, coherent sequence of thematic units that engage students in deep study of worthwhile texts and topics. Features of this book include: Six thematic units for each grade, each centered on a curated collection of literary and informational texts Focus standards for each unit that complement the topic and promote student mastery of essential literacy skills Suggested texts and activities to incorporate science, art, and history into English instruction This revised second edition includes a sample text study that guides students through a close read of an exemplary text, updated web resources, and refreshed suggested works. Educators who create their curriculum based on Common Core's Wheatley Portfolioguarantee that students are exposed to content-rich instruction and have ample opportunity to master the reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language skills articulated in the CCSS for ELA.

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806352
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reign of Error written by Diane Ravitch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown she puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.

Author : Peter Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985208691
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drilling Through the Core written by Peter Wood and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in history Americans face the prospect of a unified set of national standards for K-12 education. While this goal sounds reasonable, and Common Core has been presented as a state-led effort, it is anything but. This book analyzes Common Core from the standpoint of its deleterious effects on curriculum--language arts, mathematics, history, and more--as well as its questionable legality, its roots in the aggressive spending of a few wealthy donors, its often-underestimated costs, and the untold damage it will wreak on American higher education. At a time when more and more people are questioning the wisdom of federally-mandated one-size-fits-all solutions, Drilling through the Core offers well-considered arguments for stopping Common Core in its tracks.

Author : Larry Ainsworth
Publisher : Lead + Learn Press
ISBN 13 : 1935588419
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prioritizing the Common Core written by Larry Ainsworth and published by Lead + Learn Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consensus among educators nationwide is that in-depth instruction paired with focused assessment of essential concepts and skills are far more effective than superficially covering every concept and skill in the standards. Educators are faced with the task of teaching all standards while meeting the extraordinary range of student learning needs. Prioritizing the Common Core offers common sense solutions to the dilemmas teachers face today in implementing the new, more rigorous national standards. Chapters present a rationale for prioritizing the Common Core, a step-by-step process for prioritizing standards in language arts and mathematics, strategies for soliciting feedback and input from everyone in the district or school prior to the final determination of the Priority Standards, and detailed summaries of the process schools in six different districts used to identify their Priority Standards, with accompanying commentary by those who directed the work.