Sentences with phrase «getting common core assessments»

Chester E. Finn, Jr. has written for Ed Next about the importance of getting Common Core assessments right.

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The anti-testing movement, which encourages parents to opt their kids out of the state's standardized Common Core assessments, is getting some support from Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Cathy Nolan.

States got permission to assess some or all students using only the new common - core exams, not their regular state assessments, so students didn't have to sit through two exams.

We in the PBL world are really getting a lot of validation in the last few years, in terms of the direction Common Core has said we need to go, and the new burning interest in performance assessment in the larger field.

What's unsettling about the Common Core push is how much more intrusive the assessments and prescriptions appear to be getting, without anyone having really thought through the consequences.

Our guests will help districts determine what they need, pitfalls to avoid, and how to get technology in place to prepare for Common Core online assessments.

Changing the type of pedagogy used in the classroom and getting performance assessments instead of tests of knowledge are the real purpose of the Common Core campaign.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

I can't help but wonder: If some dude blogging from a coffee shop could see this coming, why in the world didn't Common Core's and common assessments» powerful, well - staffed, and deep - pocketed backers get ahead ofCommon Core's and common assessments» powerful, well - staffed, and deep - pocketed backers get ahead ofcommon assessments» powerful, well - staffed, and deep - pocketed backers get ahead of this?

Larry Ainsworth is the author or coauthor of numerous published books, including: Common Formative Assessments 2.0 (2015), «Unwrapping» the Common Core (2014), Prioritizing the Common Core (2013), Rigorous Curriculum Design (2010), Common Formative Assessments (2006), «Unwrapping» the Standards (2003), Power Standards (2003), Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program (2000 and 2006), Student Generated Rubrics (1998), and Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design: How School Districts Are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core (2013).

How it relates to Common Core: In their applications for Race to the Top funds, states also got points for adopting «internationally benchmarked academic standards and assessments» — in other words, the Common Core.

Gewertz notes Oklahoma isn't the only state getting cold feet about new assessments aligned to the nationally - crafted Common Core standards.

Larry Ainsworth is the author or coauthor of 15 published books, including: Common Formative Assessments 2.0 (2015), «Unwrapping» the Common Core (2014), Prioritizing the Common Core (2013), Rigorous Curriculum Design (2010), Common Formative Assessments (2006), «Unwrapping» the Standards (2003), Power Standards (2003), Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program (2000 and 2006), Student Generated Rubrics (1998), and Getting Started with Rigorous Curriculum Design: How School Districts Are Successfully Redesigning Their Curricula for the Common Core (2013).

«This was exactly the problem that a lot of policy makers and educators were trying to solve,» said Karen Nussle, the executive director of the Collaborative for Student Success, a Common Core advocacy group, «to get a more honest assessment of where kids are and being transparent about that with parents and educators so that we could do something about it.»

If California takes advantage of the offered flexibility, teachers and schools will get relief from having to administer (and be held accountable for) the results of two different sets of tests next year: the current CST exams and the new Common Core assessments.

Working in teams — as teachers at my school do routinely — helps us practice and model the skills we hope our students will develop, while also getting invested in Common Core - aligned lessons and assessment techniques.

CS: Without some big changes in the way the Common Core is being implemented, this really elegant vision could crash and burn through poor implementation or premature assessment, and then it will be 20 years before anyone gets the courage to try again.

He highlighted findings from Pivot's recent report, Getting to the Core: How Early Implementers are Approaching the Common Core in California, which suggests that successful implementation is possible in districts that steadily integrate small pieces of the Common Core requirements and that have teachers that collaborate together on assessment methods.

Sure we have a lot to do to improve education: fund universal Pre-K, reduce class size in K - 12, improve supportive services, get rid of the damaging Common Core, and replace standardized tests with effective assessments.

The anti-testing movement, which encourages parents to opt their kids out of the state's standardized Common Core assessments, is getting some support from Assembly Education Committee Chairwoman Cathy Nolan.

«This summer, the department is holding group workshops with thousands of educators in order to help them get students ready for the new assessments and the switch over to the new common core standards.»

Teachers following this process will be getting students ready for Common Core State Standards and the accompanying PARCC or SBAC assessments.

In this transitional time before the Common Core assessments are implemented, schools are struggling to get their kids and themselves ready.

The largest field test in the country of new online assessments aligned to the Common Core got underway in California this spring, and as it speeds up the state's transition...