Common Core Meets Education Reform

Download Common Core Meets Education Reform full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Common Core Meets Education Reform ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Common Core Meets Education Reform

Author : Frederick M. Hess
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807772844
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Common Core Meets Education Reform by : Frederick M. Hess

Download or read book Common Core Meets Education Reform written by Frederick M. Hess and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings together prominent scholars and policy analysts to examine the pressing issues that will mark Common Core implementation. Whether or not you agree with the standards, the Common Core is coming, and this book will help policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders anticipate the challenges and take steps to address them. “Common Core Meets Education Reform raises the hard questions about implementing and sustaining the Common Core State Standards so they don’t end up in the dustbin of abandoned public education reforms. These new standards can help students enormously in becoming problem solvers and critical thinkers—which is essential in the 21st century—but only if teachers become engaged in the rollout, get the support they need, and the fixation on high-stakes testing gives way to a fixation on learning.” —Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers “Adopting the Common Core in a mad dash for federal gold, policymakers across the country blew right past critical questions about how they’d implement the thing. This volume, in stark contrast, meticulously studies the road ahead, seeking out tripwires, pitfalls, and boulders, making it a must-read for anyone who hopes to avoid total Common Core disaster.” —Neal McCluskey, associate director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute, Washington, DC “This balanced, wide-ranging, and deeply informed book is certain to guide educators and reformers through a complex time of transition for U.S. education. But it also turns out to be timely and clarifying as politicians battle over ambitious new academic standards with plenty of heat and smoke but appallingly little illumination. Thanks to the authors for turning on some lights!” —Chester E. Finn, Jr., senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University and president, Thomas B. Fordham Institute Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and serves as executive editor of Education Next. Michael Q. McShane is a research fellow in education policy studies at AEI.

The Origins of the Common Core

Author : D. Owens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137482680
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Origins of the Common Core by : D. Owens

Download or read book The Origins of the Common Core written by D. Owens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with conservative criticism of public schools in the 1930s and culminating in a convergence of the political right and left in efforts to systemically reform education based on free market principles.

Helping English Learners to Write

Author : Carol Booth Olson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807756334
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Helping English Learners to Write by : Carol Booth Olson

Download or read book Helping English Learners to Write written by Carol Booth Olson and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich array of research-based practices, this book will help teachers improve the academic writing of English learners. It provides specific teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons to develop E Learner students' narrative, informational, and argumentative writing, emphasized in the Common Core State Standards. It also explores the challenges each of these genres pose for English Learners and suggests ways to scaffold instruction to help students become confident and competent academic writers. Showcasing the work of exemplary school teachers who have devoted time and expertise to creating rich learning environments for the secondary classroom Helping English Learners Write includes artifacts and written work produced by students with varying levels of language proficiency as models of what students can accomplish. Each chapter begins with a brief overview and ends with a short summary of the key points.

In Common No More

Author : Arnold F. Shober
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 1440837708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis In Common No More by : Arnold F. Shober

Download or read book In Common No More written by Arnold F. Shober and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did the Common Core evolve from pet project to pariah among educators and parents? This book examines the rise and fall of our national education standards from their inception to the present day. Parents, teachers, and political groups have waged debates over the Common Core since the standards' adoption in 2010. This timely examination explores the shifting political alliances related to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, explains why initial national support has faded, and considers the major debates running through the Common Core controversy. The book is organized around four themes of political conflict: federal versus state control, minorities versus majorities, experts versus professionals, and elites versus local preferences. The work reviews the politics of state and national standards, evaluating the political arguments for and against the Common Core: federal overreach, lack of evidence for effectiveness, lack of parental control, lack of teacher input, improper adaptive testing, overtesting, and connections to private education-reform funders and foundations. The work includes a short primer on the Common Core State Standards Initiative as well as on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance, two state-level organizations that have worked on the standards. An informative appendix presents brief descriptions of major interest groups and think tanks involved with the standards initiative along with a timeline of American educational standards reforms and the Common Core.

Learning versus the Common Core

Author : Nicholas Tampio
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961581
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Learning versus the Common Core by : Nicholas Tampio

Download or read book Learning versus the Common Core written by Nicholas Tampio and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity Nicholas Tampio watched as his kindergartner’s class shifted from one where teachers, aides, parents, and students worked hard to create a rewarding educational experience to one in which teachers delivered hours-long lectures using packaged lesson plans. Learning versus the Common Core explains how standards-based education reform is transforming nearly every aspect of public education by looking closely at the standards, the agenda of people pushing standards-based reform, and how these fit within a global pattern of education reform. With a nod to the philosophy of John Dewey, Tampio concludes with a vision of what democratic education can look like today—and how people can form rhizomatic alliances across different political and ethical backgrounds to fight the Common Core. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Common Core

Author : Orlean Koehle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467549653
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Common Core by : Orlean Koehle

Download or read book Common Core written by Orlean Koehle and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TurnTheHelm.org-----;http://cuacc.org --- "Common Core State Standards Initiative" is the latest education program coming down from the Obama administration, preparing the way for Obama's "Race to the Top Assessments," which will take place in 2014, when all the computer software is in place to test the minds of the nation's children to see how well Common Core (CC) has been sufficiently taught. The test will be given online, as are most of the lessons preparing for it. CC pretends to be a benign "State" program, State-written and controlled. It is touted as being "more rigorous" and will "better prepare students for college and the workplace." However, none of the above is true. CC is really a deceptive Trojan Horse, a national program, written by a national cartel, supported by President Obama and the Federal Department of Education. It is imposing national standards and curriculum on all of the 46 States that have signed onto it. [Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, and Virginia have refused it. Minnesota has adopted the English, but not the math.] CC is not improving education standards but is dumbing them down. The following are facts and reasons why parents and educators should reject Common Core in their States: - No Vote by Congress: Since Obama has his "stimulus money" that he can use "cart blanche" for whatever he desires, he did not go to Congress for permission or funding to come up with a new education program. He just went straight to the governors and enticed them with funding if they would sign on to Common Corp. - No Vote by State Legislators: Legislators have had no vote concerning Common Core either. They were bypassed in the decision to accept it into their States. If this truly is a State and local program why have they been left out? - Amazon.com

Common Core

Author : Nicholas Tampio
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421424649
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Common Core by : Nicholas Tampio

Download or read book Common Core written by Nicholas Tampio and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Common Core standardizes our kids’ education—and how it threatens our democracy. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when K–12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative book, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits. To make his case, Tampio describes the history, philosophy, content, and controversy surrounding the Common Core standards for English language arts and math. He also explains and critiques the Next Generation Science Standards, the Advanced Placement US History curriculum framework, and the National Sexuality Education Standards. Though each set of standards has admirable elements, Tampio asserts that democracies should disperse education authority rather than entrust one political or pedagogical faction to decide the country’s entire philosophy of education. Ultimately, this lively and accessible book presents a compelling case that the greater threat to democratic education comes from centralized government control rather than from local education authorities.

New and Better Schools

Author : Michael Q. McShane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475814399
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis New and Better Schools by : Michael Q. McShane

Download or read book New and Better Schools written by Michael Q. McShane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it can expand existing high quality schools and create new high quality schools to serve more children. New and Better Schools attacks this problem from the perspective of both researchers and practitioners, documenting the hurdles entrepreneurial school leaders face and offering a way forward.

The Common Core

Author : Maureen McLaughlin
Publisher : International Reading Assoc.
ISBN 13 : 9780872077065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Common Core by : Maureen McLaughlin

Download or read book The Common Core written by Maureen McLaughlin and published by International Reading Assoc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors delve into important topics such as assessment, implementation, and curriculum--as well as the implications of the Common Core for special populations such as English learners, students with disabilities, and gifted and talented students. In addition to a focus on disciplinary literacy throughout the book, there is an entire chapter devoted to helping you teach students to use disciplinary strategies to engage, guide, and extend their thinking. The second part of this book is even more exciting: a detailed look at each of the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading, combined with practical guidance on how to use those Standards to teach your middle school and high school students. Each Standard is aligned with accessible, appropriate, research-based strategies to help you integrate the ELA Standards into a series of rich, connected, instructional tasks. Classroom applications, student examples, and valuable teaching tools make this the resource you'll turn to again and again as you implement the CCSS in your classroom, school, and district.

Common Core: Yea & Nay

Author : Sol Stern
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594038201
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Common Core: Yea & Nay by : Sol Stern

Download or read book Common Core: Yea & Nay written by Sol Stern and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea) by Sol Stern In the past few decades – as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education – the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America’s classrooms. Now, for all its faults, the Common Core State Standards represent the best opportunity we have to restore that structure in our schools. In this Broadside, Sol Stern shows how both sides of the education spectrum have misrepresented the Common Core. The left regards the standards as a threat to their ideological hegemony, while conservative pundits lack a true understanding of what they actually provide. Americans should see the Common Core as an opening to restore academic content to the nation’s schools and reverse the influence of educational progressivism in our classrooms. Why the Common Core Is a Bad Idea (Common Core: Nay) by Peter W. Wood The latest effort to fix America’s schools has backfired. In 2007, an elite group of would-be reformers devised a brilliant political strategy to transform education without ever facing public scrutiny. Their bold strategy, which became the Common Core State Standards, was astonishingly successful – for a while. Then the American public took notice. In this Broadside, Peter W. Wood explains how the Common Core actually lowers standards while pretending to raise them and chokes off local control of our schools in favor of domination by the federal government and private groups. Bankrolled by the Gates Foundation, favored by political elites, and supported by true believers on both sides of the political spectrum, the Common Core once appeared unstoppable. But it can be stopped, and this book shows us how.

Misguided Education Reform

Author : Nancy E. Bailey
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475803583
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Misguided Education Reform by : Nancy E. Bailey

Download or read book Misguided Education Reform written by Nancy E. Bailey and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction. This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

Why Knowledge Matters

Author : E. D. Hirsch
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612509541
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Why Knowledge Matters by : E. D. Hirsch

Download or read book Why Knowledge Matters written by E. D. Hirsch and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children’s life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds. In the absence of a clear, common curriculum, Hirsch contends that tests are reduced to measuring skills rather than content, and that students from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot develop the knowledge base to support high achievement. Hirsch advocates for updated policies based on a set of ideas that are consistent with current cognitive science, developmental psychology, and social science. The book focuses on six persistent problems of recent US education: the over-testing of students; the scapegoating of teachers; the fadeout of preschool gains; the narrowing of the curriculum; the continued achievement gap between demographic groups; and the reliance on standards that are not linked to a rigorous curriculum. Hirsch examines evidence from the United States and other nations that a coherent, knowledge-based approach to schooling has improved both achievement and equity wherever it has been instituted, supporting the argument that the most significant education reform and force for equality of opportunity and greater social cohesion is the reform of fundamental educational ideas. Why Knowledge Matters introduces a new generation of American educators to Hirsch’s astute and passionate analysis.

Left Back

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743203267
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Left Back by : Diane Ravitch

Download or read book Left Back written by Diane Ravitch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.

Building Academic Language

Author : Jeff Zwiers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118744853
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Building Academic Language by : Jeff Zwiers

Download or read book Building Academic Language written by Jeff Zwiers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out! In the second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource!” —Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, Molloy College “Language is critical to the development of content learning as students delve more deeply into specific disciplines. When students possess strong academic language, they are better able to critically analyze and synthesize complex ideas and abstract concepts. In this second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers successfully builds the connections between the Common Core State Standards and academic language. This is the ‘go to’ resource for content teachers as they transition to the expectations for college and career readiness.” —Katherine S. McKnight, PhD, National Louis University With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by most of the United States, students need help developing their understanding and use of language within the academic context. This is crucially important throughout middle school and high school, as the subjects discussed and concepts taught require a firm grasp of language in order to understand the greater complexity of the subject matter. Building Academic Language shows teachers what they can do to help their students grasp language principles and develop the language skills they’ll need to reach their highest levels of academic achievement. The Second Edition of Building Academic Language includes new strategies for addressing specific Common Core standards and also provides answers to the most important questions across various content areas, including: What is academic language and how does it differ by content area? How can language-building activities support content understanding for students? How can teachers assist students in using language more effectively, especially in the academic context? How can academic language usage be modeled routinely in the classroom? How can lesson planning and assessment support academic language development? An essential resource for teaching all students, this book explains what every teacher needs to know about language for supporting reading, writing, and academic learning.

Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core

Author : Paul Boyd-Batstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317921585
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core by : Paul Boyd-Batstone

Download or read book Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core written by Paul Boyd-Batstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new teacher-friendly book offers a quick, efficient, easy-to-use tool--the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels (CALL)--to assess the language levels of English learners in grades K-12. Learn how to effectively use the tool utilizing direct interview and small-group observation to determine students’ instructional levels and needs. Get a variety of engaging, differentiated, Common Core-based strategies that can be used post-assessment to help students at each level improve their speaking and listening skills. Strategies to help all your ELLs optimize their learning include... Using interactive journals Creating chart stories Using meaningful gestures Using cognates Exploring word origins And much, much more!

Cracking the Common Core

Author : William E. Lewis
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462513131
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cracking the Common Core by : William E. Lewis

Download or read book Cracking the Common Core written by William E. Lewis and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature, informational texts, and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It presents clear-cut ways to analyze text complexity, design challenging text sets, and help students get the most out of what they read. Provided are practical instructional ideas for building background knowledge, promoting engagement, incorporating discussion and text-based writing, and teaching research skills. Appendices offer sample unit plans for English language arts, history/social studies, and science classrooms. More than 20 reproducible coaching templates and other tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Making the Common Core Standards Work

Author : Robert J. Manley
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1452277508
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Making the Common Core Standards Work by : Robert J. Manley

Download or read book Making the Common Core Standards Work written by Robert J. Manley and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for school leaders! Providing a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new Common Core State Standards, this practical guide focuses on realistic strategies for lasting change within schools. The authors build an inspiring case for how individual schools can develop a world-class education system through targeted professional development. Topics include: Empowering teachers and staff as partners in implementing the new standards Adapting existing curriculum to meet grade-level goals for mathematics and language arts Designing assessments that measure mastery of the standards Ensuring that the standards benefit all students, including multicultural learners