Common Core standards were adopted in 2010 by Arizona. Since then, and including this year, students have been tested on it, but the new system won’t "go live" until 2014. “We are in the in-between stage of new standards and old,” Neville said. “The students need to be exposed to the new standards now so they will be adequately prepared. These are no longer just Arizona standards.” Read the article...
DENVER - At schools around the country, three words are causing teachers to re-think the way they do things - Common Core Standards. "It's a shorter version, but more compact and more meaningful version of the standards that we are teaching our children," Liz Brazeel, a third-grade teacher at the Math and Science Leadership Academy in Denver, said. Read the article...
The Governing Board of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) met on April 3, 2012. The board meets quarterly to make major policy and operational decisions on behalf the PARCC consortium, including decisions related to the overall design of the assessment system, PARCC's procurement strategy, and other significant issues.
PARCC has commissioned several white papers to be written by TAC members discussing psychometric and assessment design related issues. There are two more white papers now available: one on growth models and value-added design and the other on performance level descriptors (PLDs). All white papers can be found on the Technical Advisory Committee section of the PARCC website.
Dave Dirkson, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction at Flagstaff Unified School District in Arizona, is busy preparing teachers for the Common Core standards. FUSD is introducing the math standards to kindergartners and first-graders. According to The Arizona Daily Sun, next year, they'll expand the math standards to grades 2, 3 and 6-8, and introduce the English/language arts standards to all elementary and middle school grades. In 2013-14, fourth- and fifth-graders will get the "new" math and high schoolers will get both standards.
To Darren Burris, a middle-school instructional coach and a high-school math teacher, "the Common Core represents an empowering opportunity for teachers to collaborate, exchange best practices and share differing curricula—because a common set of standards is not the same thing as a common curriculum." Read his op-ed in The Hechinger Report.
Achieve and Education First Release Common Core State Standards Tool to Assist States in Implementing the CCSS
The wide adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents an unprecedented opportunity in public education across the country. For the first time in history states will share a common platform on which they can collaborate and compare achievement, and students from coast to coast will be held to standards designed to prepare them for the 21st century demands of college and careers.
By the start of the 2014–15 school year, Ohio schools will be teaching a new set of lessons. It’s called the Common Core. The Common Core is a set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do in math and English. It was developed by teachers, math and language experts and others several years ago in an effort organized by state school chiefs and governors. Read the article...
Achieve and Education First Release Common Core State Standards Tool to Assist States in Implementing the CCSS The wide adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents an unprecedented...Read more >>
PARCC's monthly newsletter - PARCC Place - offers updates on PARCC's major areas of work, resources, and meetings.The PARCC Place newsletter also features contributions from educators across PARCC...Read more >>
Smarter Balanced and PARCC Issue Guidance for New Instructional Technology PurchasesSpecifications Provide Assurance that New Devices will be Compatible with Next-Generation Assessments April 25,...Read more >>
