Text Complexity: How They're Tackling it in New York City
Teachers in New York City learn new ways of gauging a text's complexity, and ways to teach discipline-specific reading strategies.
Teachers in New York City learn new ways of gauging a text's complexity, and ways to teach discipline-specific reading strategies.
The common standards' emphasis on students' skill with complex texts and disciplinary literacy pushes teachers to rethink how they should do their jobs.
A call for shared curriculum generates debate.
The minute anyone says "common curriculum," there is an instantaneous reaction in some quarters that envisions every 3rd grader in America reading from the exact same page of the exact same textbook at the exact same moment on a given Tuesday in February. Is our problem here just a semantic one?
The AFT presses for shared curriculum linked to the common standards.
The National PTA creates guidance for parents on the new common standards.
The American Federation of Teachers wades into the question of how curriculum should be developed for the common standards.
Experts question whether federal law allows the two state assessment consortia to design curricular and instructional materials.
The South Dakota House education committee bans national history standards even before any exist.
With the approval of the state Senate's education committee, Idaho's adoption of the common standards is final.
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