Common Core and its Implications:
Informational/Promotional Implementing the Common Core State Standards - http://www.corestandards.org/ The Idiot's guide to the common Core - http://www.independent.com/news/2013/aug/15/idiots-guide-common-core/ Research Foundations for the CCSD in Language Arts - http://www.scienceandliteracy.org/sites/scienceandliteracy.org/files/pdf/Pearson_Research_Foundations_Common_Core_State_Standards_in_ELA.pdf Common Core is Status Quo - http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/06/john_thompson_common_core_is_t.html The Common Core and Common Good - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/blow-the-common-core-and-the-common-good.html OREGON Common Core Standards for Oregon Teachers - http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=3385 Oregonian - Oregon Schools Prepare - http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/08/oregon_schools_prepare_tougher.html Oregon's Early Learning System - http://oregonearlylearning.com/kindergarten-assessment/ The Oregon Kindergarten Assessment - http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/admin/kindergarten_asmt_training_20130523_part-1.mp4 The Kindergarten Assessment, A Guide for Schools - http://oregonearlylearning.com/kindergarten-assessment/for-teachers/
Critiques Kohn Critique - http://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/umteenth/ The Trouble with the Common Core - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/27_04/edit274.shtml The Intricate Plot that is Common Core - http://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/the-intricate-plot-that-is-common-core/ Diane Ravich, Why I cannot support CCSS - http://dianeravitch.net/2013/02/26/why-i-cannot-support-the-common-core-standards/ CCSD and the suspension of Child Development - http://thepubliceducator.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/common-core-and-the-suspension-of-child-development/ Lessons from Hary Potter For Teachers - http://dianeravitch.net/ The Education Games: Reform as Doublespeak - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/27/1068659/-The-Education-Games-Reform-as-Double-Speak The Common Core and the End of the World - http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6431 Taking Note, John Merrow - http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?s=common+core&submit=Search How Children are being set up to fail - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/16/how-students-are-being-set-up-to-fail/ Common Core 101 - http://www.all4ed.org/files/CommonCore101.pdf Teachers Union and Common Core - http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/04/time_for_teacher_unions_to_hop.html The Meaning of Dropping Test Scores - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/07/what-big-drop-in-new-standardized-test-scores-really-means/ 8 problems with the Common Core - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/eight-problems-with-common-core-standards/2012/08/21/821b300a-e4e7-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html (Reply) I don't Think So - http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/top_performers/2012/09/8_problems_with_the_common_core_state_standards_i_dont_think_so.html The 9th problem - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-9th-problem-with-the-common-core-standards/2012/09/18/723d240e-0071-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_blog.html Common Core Math Standards - http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/a-new-kind-of-problem-the-common-core-math-standards/265444/ An Open letter to Architects of the CC - http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6411 Randell Hendee - http://dianeravitch.net/category/common-core/
Assorted Getting Teacher Evaluation Right - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/getting-teacher-evaluation-right/2011/09/15/gIQAPzs9UK_blog.html Resisting the Script - http://www.rethinkingschools.org//cmshandler.asp?archive/26_03/26_03_au.shtml School Reform We can't believe in - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/24_03/24_03_NCLBstan.shtml
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Race to the Top: White House Document - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/fact-sheet-race-top R2TT Fund Program - http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/proprule/2009-3/072909d.html Wikipedia info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_Top
Crtical Analysis Center for Educational Reform - http://www.edreform.com/_upload/CER_R2TT_RealityCheck.pdf Frozen out in Fresno - http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/10/race_to_the_top_frozen_out_in_.html Washington Post - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/education-secretary-duncan/analysis-blasts-obamas-school-turnaround-policy.html Democracy Now interviews - http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/30/obama_defends_sweeping_education_reforms_in Fire Dog Lake Article - http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/03/30/race-to-the-top-actually-forcing-states-to-hew-to-arne-duncans-particular-favorite-policies/ School “Rheeform” in Washington, D.C. - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/25_01/25_01_dingerson.shtml
School Reform Readings: The New Misogyny - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/26_04/edit264.shtml Taking Teacher Quality Seriously - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/26_04/26_04_karp.shtml Why Not High Stakes Testing - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/25_02/25_02_au.shtml The debate over differentiated Pay - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/quality_teachers/24_01_pay.shtml Exploding the Privatization Myth - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_01/expl211.shtml Consuming the Public School - http://www.stanford.edu/~dlabaree/publication2011/Consuming_the_Public_School.pdf Upheaval of School Turnaround Policy - http://annenberginstitute.org/news/2012/10/01/new-nepc-study-co-authored-aisr-finds-current-school-turnaround-policies-are-%E2%80%9Cmore-l
Charter Schools Readings: Wave of the Future - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/new-teacher-evaluations-start-to-hurt-students/2012/09/29/f6d1b038-0aa6-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_blog.html
Crtical Analysis Charter Schools do not Outperform Unionized - http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicagos-unionized-public-schools-outperform-charter-schools/Content?oid=7559748 Charter School Lobby in Phil - http://thenotebook.org/blog/125220/charter-school-lobby-seeks-restrict-democratic-control-schools Keeping the Promise? - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/promise/promise_intro.shtml These Charter Schools are #1 - http://edushyster.com/?p=851 Chicago Public vs Charter - http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicagos-unionized-public-schools-outperform-charter-schools/Content?oid=7559748
No Child Left Behind Readings: US Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=ln US Gov. Desktop References - http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/nclbreference/index.html Promises and challenges of NCLB - http://www.publiceducation.org/pdf/Publications/Connections/Senator_Kennedy.pdf What Every Parent, Teacher, and Community Member Needs to Know About No Child Left Behind http://www.oaklandea.org/front_page_docs/may_07/NCLB%20Jaeger.pdf
Crtical Analysis Rethinking Schools: NCLB - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/index.shtml National Center for Fair and Open Testing - http://www.fairtest.org/nattest/bushtest.html NCLB Atrocities: Ohanian -http://www.susanohanian.org/show_nclb_atrocities.php Let Them Eat Tests - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/16_04/Eat164.shtml No Child Left - http://nochildleft.com/
Critiques Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: Garan - http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0103gar.htm Let them eat more than Phonics: Zimmerman - http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0304zim.htm An Urban Legend from California: Krashen - http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0206kra.htm Babes in the Woods: Yatvin - http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0201yat.htm False Claims about Literacy Development: Krashen - http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200403/krashen.html
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