She said she agrees that transparency is important as the state continues to update the test to adapt to the controversial Common Core standards, which have been adopted by dozens of states and outline what students should know at each grade level in English and Math. (wshu.org)
To make accurate decisions about the quality of teaching and the impact of school programs, Willett and Singer urge policymakers to examine not what different classes of children know at each grade level, but how the knowledge and skills of specific groups change over time. (gse.harvard.edu)
Now, their help and training is needed more than ever as teachers make the radical shifts in instruction set by the Common Core State Standards, the new academic guidelines for what students should know at each grade level in math and English Language Arts. (edsource.org)