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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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• Common Core Implementation Proves Problematic

  
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  Newscom New York and Kentucky have begun testing based on the new Common Core education standards, and they are quickly seeing frustration among educators, parents, and students. The states that have signed on to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative are supposed to fully implement the standards by the ...
  6 days ago

• Where does world-changing fit into the #CCSS ?

  
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  My friend Angela Maiers has been visiting me in New York and came over last week totally jazzed about helping kids in a school she visited change the world during the last couple days of school. For many teachers, however, it is  not clear where world- changing fits within the testing and standards each student is ...
  6 days ago

• Fractions. Smart Pirate - A New Top Pick Math App - Review

  
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  Fractions are a necessary skill and show up in every grade level’s Common Core Standards beginning in second grade. Fractions. Smart Pirate math app is fun way to not just identify fractions, but to apply problem solving skills with them as well. Students go from identifying simple fractions to using those ...
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• Opinion: No Learning Without Feeling

  
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  Agreement on how American schoolchildren should read and write is much easier to arrive at than agreement on what they should read and write.        
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• Opinion: The Common Core: Who’s Minding the Schools?

  
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  Are new standards really leveling the playing field? Or is the game prearranged so that many, if not most, of the players will fail?        
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• A Wonderful Visual on Common Core Standards for Teachers and Students

  
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  I just came across this handy infographic and find it really worth sharing with you here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. This infographic illustrates what everyone needs to know about... ....read more
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• Idaho university presidents back Common Core standards

  
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  The presidents of Idaho’s three public universities and Lewis Clark State College are backing Idaho’s Core Standards, which demands a rigorous education rooted in problem solving and critical thinking. In...
  2 weeks ago

• Education and Strange Bedfellow: Common Core is Wrong

  
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  First off - read Anthony Codys column from his Living in Dialogue slot at Education Week.  READ IT in its entirety.   Why?  Because it gives quite the total picture of Common Core and why so many - yes, including Tea Party folks - are against it.  Worried about it.  And will fight it.  You should be, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Are We Testing Students Before We Teach Them?

  
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  Image courtesy sarah-ji /Flickr via CC. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent essay I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “Why Are We Testing Students Before We Teach Them?” : … If students are stressed by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Experience Counts When Hiring Teachers.

  
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  Its time for the Open Market Transfer System (OMTS) when teachers look for positions that better suit them or just looking for a change of scenery. Unfortunately, in the last two terms of the Bloomberg Administration few experienced teachers were considered by principals for their vacancies and "who can blame them" ...
  2 weeks ago

• Editorial Board and Others Want Iowa Homeschool Bureaucracy Continued

  
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  Our current day and age reveals public school students  boycotting standardized testing  while federal  Common Core  invasions are occurring on a local level.   Controversial profits  are made off children’s backs, who must steadfastly fill in the tedious dots in the classroom. Actual learning seems to be ...
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• GUEST POST: Tread Lightly When Regulating Private Schools

  
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  Newscom What we cherish dearly in the private school community (be it religious or independent) is freedom—the freedom to provide an education different from that provided in public schools. Sadly, that choice is being taken over by Washington bureaucrats who want all schools—public and private— to be clones ...
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• Why Are We Testing Students Before We Teach Them?

  
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  Image courtesy sarah-ji /Flickr via CC. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent essay I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “Why Are We Testing Students Before We Teach Them?” : … If students are stressed by the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ten-Frame Treasures™ by Learning Resources {review & giveaway}

  
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  If you are looking for a fun way to aid in teaching your hands-on learning child math, Ten-Frame Treasures just may be the activity set you are looking for! This comprehensive math manipulative set appealed to both my son age 2 1/2 and my daughter age 5. It can help you teach base-ten number concepts and it’s great ...
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• Gooru Adds a Common Core Standards-Based Search Tool

  
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  This morning I was a guest on NCompass Live . During my appearance I talked about Gooru . Gooru is a great place to find and or create collections of educational videos, texts, and images. This afternoon I learned that Goorus new interface includes the option to search for materials according to ELA Common Core ...
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• Parents take concerns about Common Core to WI state capitol

  
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  MADISON WI - Parents in Wisconsin took their concerns about the federal Common Core Standards and its curriculum to the states lawmakers last week. The argue against the data mining, computerized testing, questionable academic standards and nationalized curriculum. Illinois parents...
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• Why are We Testing Students Before We Teach Them?

  
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  In “A Tough New Test Spurs Protests and Tears,” New York Times reporters Javier Hernandez and Al Baker describe the uproar in New York City in response to the Common Core standardized tests. The mission of Common Core standards reads as follows: The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear ...
  3 weeks ago

• Give ‘em a centimeter, they’ll take . . .

  
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  When Jeanne Zaino was in second grade, teachers were told to teach the metric system. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 had made metric the preferred system of weights and measures. It’s a  cautionary tale for Common Core standards , writes Zaino, a professor of political science and international studies at Iona ...
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• Kid Blog

  
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  I recently found a terrific free site that allows you to have a closed blog network without a bunch of advertisements.   Kid Blog works off the Wordpress platform so kids are learning valuable website building skills. They are excited to write content to share with others. And readers can leave comments below ...
  3 weeks ago

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