Common Core Headlines

Catherine Gewertz writes about standards and assessment for Ed Week. Her insightful articles are informative and sometimes provocative as was her final one for 2013 (Dec. 24, 2013) entitled “Common-Core Headlines You Probably Won’t See in 2014”. Here are some from her list:

·         Breakthrough: Consortium Tests to Be Scored Entirely by Artificial Intelligence

·         PARCC and Smarter Balanced Complete Field-Testing Without a Single Computer Glitch

·         Texas Turnaround: Lone Star State Embraces PARCC Assessments

Here are a few of my own additions:

·         Teachers Unequivocally Support Teaching to the Common Core

·         The Common Core Replaces 21^st Century Skills Such As Creativity and Digital Literacy

·         States Agree That the Price of Testing (Over $1 Billion) Will Be Well Worth It

·         Lexile increases of up to two grade levels prove that by 11^th grade all students will be able to apply the ideas in “Working Knowledge of Electronic Stability Control”, evaluate “Health Care Costs”, analyze the work of De Tocqueville, and interpret Chaucer, Dostoevsky, and Moliere. (CCSS Appendix B)

Feel free to add yours