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• The Common Core Straight Jacket

  
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  By Alan Caruba ~ American education was based on some very fundamental principles and, from the 1640s until the 1840s, they were, in the words of Joseph Bast, the president of The Heartland Institute , “real civics, real economics, and real virtues.” Bast is the co-author of “Education and Capitalism” ...
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• Feds Offer Flexibility on Teacher-Evaluation Implementation

  
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  Colleague Alyson Klein reports that the U.S. Department of Education will consider giving states an extra year to implement their new teacher-evaluation systems before putting the teeth into them. As you probably know, instituting teacher-evaluation systems was one of the conditions of the waivers the department ...
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• What Maggie Says: Informational Text Writing

  
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    At a professional development I was co-facilitating the other day with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, we were very fortunate to have Maggie Roberts (from Teachers College) skype into our session to chat with us about the idea of informational writing. This has been one of the topics that we have been ...
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• Common Core Changes

  
  Bus-L Teacher Resources — Authority: 92
  My early summer lay off isnt exactly over (its been four weeks since my last post), but I do feel that Im ready to start posting my Common Core (CCSS) units fairly soon. To provide a little background, here in New Mexico, at least here in Las Cruces, grades K-3 adopted the CCSS this past school year. Grades 4-12 will ...
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• Funding for Common Core implementation ends with Gov. Snyders signature on budget

  
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  House Speaker Jase Bolger said lawmakers should be prepared to vote on moving forward with the standards when the legislature returns from recess in September.
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• Heritage Hangout: Common Core Education Standards

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation — Authority: 707
  The rubber is meeting the road with the Obama Administration’s Common Core education standards. As the standards start to affect students in the classroom, even the American Federation of Teachers has said that teachers are not ready to implement the new program. Michelle Malkin has been covering the Common ...
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• APPR Q&A

  
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  A friend of mine estimates that my tiny district is going to spend around $1 million on APPR alone. My entire state has gone crazy . Crazi er .
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• Why Im against the Common Core

  
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  North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mike Forest stirred up a bit of a hornets nest. In this video , Forest vilifies the Common Core State Standards, which his state is now reconsidering. I first learned of this from an intelligent blogger and educator, Steven Weber, who takes Forest to task in his post here . Then, ...
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• In New York, it’s Team Education Reform vs. Team Stop Albany

  
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  A couple of weeks ago, a new coalition of education, business and government groups came together in White Plains to protest all the “mandates” coming down from Albany—all the rules and programs and reforms that force school districts to spend money. At the time, a schools superintendent referred to Race... ...
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• Common Core State Standards and Understanding by Design Summer Institute Brings Together Area Educators

  
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  Our first Common Core State Standards and Understanding by Design Summer Institute - a collaboration with the St. Louis Area Curriculum Coordinators Association (SLACCA) and Authentic Education- was a great success this week at the Fox School District. Educators from several Missouri districts, including, but not ...
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• With the Common Core, the Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

  
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  In a new post on Diane Ravitch’s blog, Robert Shepherd makes many insightful observations about the sad state of reading instruction: Back in 1984, Palinscar and Brown wrote a highly influential paper about something they called “reciprocal learning.” They suggested, in that paper, that teachers conducting ...
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• Afternoon Announcements: Senate Committee Passes ESEA Reauthorization Bill

  
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  States are requesting more leeway and time on evaluating teachers during the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, less than two years away in the majority of states. The new assessments will be tied to accountability systems for teacher performance, and educators want to know they’ll be given adequate ...
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• Anancy Festival: Common Core Standards

  
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  My upcoming contributions to the Anancy Festival may beof special interest to educators. The two activities, APoet’s Toolbox and GrandpaSydney’s Anancy Stories , meet the CommonCore Standards for Literacy and Multicultural Literacy: CCSS.ELA-Literacy (RL.3.1CCSS.ELA-Literacy; RL.3.2CCSS.ELA-Literacy; ...
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• The Power of Long-Term Professional Staff Development

  
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  Had a great second session of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) consulting at Beaches Episcopal School. I will be their STEM Specialist for the 2013-2014 school-year. The first of four STEM professional staff development training sessions took place on June 4th. During the day-long training teachers ...
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• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2

  
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  Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Literature » Grade 11-12 hmmmmm ...
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• Bandas First Year Reflections

  
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  Dear Seattle Public Schools community: As the 2012-2013 school year draws to a close, I want to thank you all for welcoming me in my first year as your Superintendent. It has been a pleasure to get to know the schools and community and learn about the ideas and concerns each of you have. My conversations ...
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• How many Common Core standards are there?

  
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  According to Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, more than 1,300 . 13 years of school, 130+ standards per year, 13+ standards per month. Four+ standards per week. One standard a day? Can that be right?
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• Storify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup

  
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  [<a href="//storify.com/afhyslop/senate-help-committee-esea-markup" target="_blank">View the story "Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup" on Storify</a>]
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• Afternoon Announcements: Senate Education Committee Marks Up NCLB Bill

  
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  Yesterday and today the Senate education committee marked up its version of a bill slated to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It’s unlikely to pass given partisan differences, but it’s interesting to see what will come out of this and how far the bill will go. Politics K-12 The ...
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• Algorithms, Quadcopters, and the CCSS-M

  
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  So, as usual, the end of the school year (and then subsequent visit from my in-laws) ended up leaving not enough time to do my self-assigned homework around #algorithmchat in a timely manner. But, in keeping with my belief that its more about the learning then the exact date of that learning, heres the results of my ...
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