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There are two national consortia working in parallel on assessment systems: the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).
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Edutopia Research Analyst, Vanessa Vega, recently posted an invaluable resource list on her blog. In addition to describing how she benefited by learning from other teachers, she lists a number of websites designed to help teachers share resources, including new ones for the Common Core State Standards. We think you will find this especially valuable as you start off the new year. |
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Last spring we were chosen to recieve a Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grant that has given us a chance to create a terrific web-delivered game, Reading in the Real World: The Sports Network 2. While this game addresses Common Core State Standards in reading informational text (Gr. 8), it will also take advantage of a whole array of game features young people have come to love—avatars to represent themselves, animation, a modern environment, contemporary tech tools, rewards, and much more. 
Have you read Coming Together to Raise Achievement, New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards? This recently released resource provides a clear description of what the new assessments will measure and identifies steps on the path to a 2014 release of online assessment systems.
A major new study performed by Metis Associates shows that summer students enrolled in Classroom, Inc. programs made significant gains in reading and math. On average students gained three months in reading and seven months in math after just four to five weeks of using Classroom, Inc.
The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) and the Ford Foundation are working together to make expanded learning time the “new normal” for schools in our nation’s underserved communities. Momentum is building to support this strategy to help students who are on the wrong side of the achievement gap. To learn why and how expanded learning time can help the nation's schools close the achievement gap, explore the findings of the report Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar, A Snapshot of Federal, State and Local Action.
Students using our program experienced no summer learning loss during summer 2011, and in fact the vast majority made gains that will serve them well this fall. This summer we trained and supported 415 teachers and served 8,300 students in 93 schools throughout six cities: New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Memphis; Hollywood, Florida; and, Pittsburgh.