Comment on NBPTS Literacy Standards
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) announces its public review period for Literacy: Reading-Language Arts Standards for early and middle childhood teachers. Practicing...
View ArticleDoes Common Core Overemphasize Non-Fiction?
In an interesting editorial for the New York Times online, Sara Mosle takes up the debate around one of the key shifts in reading instruction advocated by the Common Core — a shift that calls for much...
View ArticleCommon Core in the Schools: A First Look at Reading Assignments
As forty-six states and the District of Columbia implement the Common Core State standards, questions abound regarding implementation, including the implications for curriculum and pedagogy. In Common...
View ArticleTeachers Are Supposed to Assign Harder Books, but They Aren’t Doing It Yet
With Common Core (CCSS) in various stages of implementation in 46 states, one might expect the majority of teachers to be making changes that align with the standards, even if testing for CCSS will not...
View ArticleAction Needed to Improve Educator Data Literacy
States should promote data use skills, ease of access to data, and the use of a common language about data literacy to support strengthening data literacy among the nation’s educators as an important...
View ArticlePARCC Releases Updated ELA Rubrics for Prose Constructed Responses
The PARCC ELA/literacy prose constructed response item rubrics have been updated with the help of educators across PARCC states to reflect lessons learned from the PARCC field test. A PCR item asks...
View ArticleCollege- and Career-Ready Assignments
As a result of new, more rigorous college and career standards, many school leaders and educators are asking, “What does a college- and career-ready assignment look like?” Ed Trust answers that...
View ArticleDigital Promise’s Equity in the Driver’s Seat
Writing for Digital Promise, Babe Liberman and Viki Young, Ph.D., explore a practice-driven, equity-centered approach for setting R&D agendas in education. The project invited teachers to...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2020
Edutopia reviewed hundreds of educational studies in 2020 and has highlighted 10 that they believe are the most significant—covering topics from virtual learning to the reading wars and the decline of...
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