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The New Common Core Assessments: Will they Hobble the Curriculum?
Just before the holidays, Education Sector released a report entitled Let History Not Repeat Itself: Overcoming Obstacles to the Common Core’s Success authored by John Chubb. This is a rich and...
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The New English War: Marching to the Sound of the Canon
As districts begin to implement the Common Core State Standards, the debate over how to incorporate more non-fiction, informational text, literary non-fiction, or texts from the content areas into the...
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Vocabulary, Digital Content, Snowballs, and the State of the Union
Reading the EdWeek article – Students Must Learn More Words, Say Studies – my mind flashed back to a scene from a few weekends ago when I took a walk with my three grandchildren on the Baltimore...
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Common Core State Standards Implementation: Focus on the Process not the Results
Recently at the World Match Play Championships, the two best golfers in the world lost in the first round: “Tiger and Rory Ousted.” Two days earlier, Barcelona with Lionel Messi, the most prolific...
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Webinar Feedback: What Teachers Think about Common Core MAP Assessment
March 11, 2013 kicked off our first webinar in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) series titled Guide to Common Core and MAP for Teachers. I was lucky to be the facilitator and Kathy Dyer moderated...
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Automated Essay Scoring (AES) and the Common Core State Standards
In the last few weeks a lot has been written about using computers to score student writing. Harvard and MIT offered through EdX, their joint venture to deliver massive open online courses (MOOCs),...
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Teacher and Automated Essay Scoring (AES)… A Winning Combination?
One of the hallmarks and frustrations of the field of education is the imprecision of the language. In education we call the same thing by many names, or we use the same term to mean many different...
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Common Core Assessments – Measuring the Intangible
Recently in the New York Times, Stanley Fish wrote a piece titled The Two Cultures of Educational Reform. Though his essay was focused on higher education, his thoughts and those of Derek Bok and...
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