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.
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March 15, 2011
March 10, 2011
Text Complexity and Other Not-So-Simple Things
The common standards' emphasis on students' skill with complex texts and disciplinary literacy pushes teachers to rethink how they should do their jobs.
March 09, 2011
Shared Curriculum, 3rd Grade Reading and Formative Tests
A call for shared curriculum generates debate.
March 07, 2011
Shared Curriculum: Great Goal or Bogeyman?
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?
February 24, 2011
Curriculum Linked to Common Standards is Needed, AFT Says
The AFT presses for shared curriculum linked to the common standards.
February 24, 2011
PTA Issues Common-Standards Guides for Parents
The National PTA creates guidance for parents on the new common standards.
February 23, 2011
AFT Wades Into Common Standards and Assessments
The American Federation of Teachers wades into the question of how curriculum should be developed for the common standards.
February 11, 2011
Can the Federal Government Fund Curriculum Materials?
Experts question whether federal law allows the two state assessment consortia to design curricular and instructional materials.
February 08, 2011
Banning Standards That Don't Exist
The South Dakota House education committee bans national history standards even before any exist.
January 25, 2011
Common-Standards Watch: Idaho Makes it Final
With the approval of the state Senate's education committee, Idaho's adoption of the common standards is final.
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