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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

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Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.

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Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy.

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Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target

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As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. Strong language skills are key as part of the state’s Common Core standards. It said JCPS should “create a clear vision for the academic progress” for these students.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Seesaw

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Seesaw is used by primary grade-level teachers, middle school subject area teachers, elective teachers, and after-school program teachers, but it's most often used in elementary schools. Seesaw Skills view allows users to keep track of student proficiency on any given skill or academic standard.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

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But by the 1980’s, after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education which described America’s education system as largely failing and in need of dire reform, many parents called for public kindergarten and a more standard, formal curriculum. States and districts responded.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

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I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.