Common Standards

The latest news about the Common Core State Standards, including articles, Commentaries, and special features.

The Common Core Explained

With all the developments and debate around the common-core standards, and the release of test results tied to them, here are the background, definitions, research, and other resources you need to get you up to speed. (September 28, 2015)

• What Tests Does Each State Require?

• Map: Tracking the Common Core State Standards


Spotlight on Common-Core Instruction

In this Spotlight, explore how teachers are leading the way in implementing the common core, review the effects of new math standards, and read interviews and commentary on the common-core literacy standards.

Spotlight on Special Education and the Common Core

In this Spotlight, take a look at how alternative assessments align to the common core, see how testing accommodations differ between consortia, and examine how a results-driven accountability system is giving new life to instruction.

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Issue Backgrounder

For background on this topic, see:
• The Common Core Explained

Blog Coverage

Standards
The Curriculum Matters blog covers developments on the adoption and implementation of common standards. Visit this page to browse the latest posts on this topic.

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Common-Core Webinars

These virtual broadcasts address the transition to and implementation of common-core standards, including the contentious mathematics standards.

Special Collection

Common-Core Commentaries
Thought leaders, policymakers and educators offer their opinions and ideas on the common-core standards.
Teacher PD in the Common-Core Era
This special report explores that intersection, providing profiles of new ideas and challenges in teacher professional development.
Common-Core Math in Practice
This special report at how the Common Core State Standards are changing instruction in mathematics.
Vision Meets Reality: Common-Core in Action
This special report explores how the initial vision for the standards—and for aligned assessments—is now bumping up against reality.

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Commentary
What Betsy DeVos Can Learn From Bush-Obama School Reform
There are four practical lessons for avoiding past administrations' education pitfalls, write Fredrick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane.
October 24, 2018 – Education Week
Commentary
We Spend Too Much Time Teaching Students to Argue
An outsize focus on proving a point in school sends a dangerous hidden message, writes Kate Ehrenfeld Gardoqui.
October 3, 2018 – Education Week
Letter to the Editor
A New Model for Teacher-Prep
September 26, 2018 – Education Week
Commentary
Are Schools Trying to Teach Too Much?
It's time to rethink and reduce the current courseloads schools require. The current curricula are overstuffed, writes David J. Ferrero
July 20, 2018 – Education Week
Educators Scramble for Texts to Match Science Standards
Five years after the Next Generation Science Standards were rolled out, curricular options for teaching them have been slow to materialize.
June 6, 2018 – Education Week
Don't Use SAT and ACT as Your High School Tests, Study Urges
States should not use the SAT or ACT to measure high school achievement because those exams don’t fully reflect states' academic standards, and could distort what's taught in the classroom, according to a paper released Tuesday by Achieve.
March 21, 2018 – Education Week
Should States Swap Out Their Tests for the ACT or SAT?
A Florida study urges caution in taking advantage of ESSA's new flexibility on state testing.
February 7, 2018 – Education Week
Commentary
What the Standards-Based Movement Got Wrong
Three simple questions could modernize classroom instruction and correct the past mistakes of the standards movement, writes educator Jenny Froehle.
November 29, 2017 – Education Week
A One-Year Scorecard for Trump on K-12 Campaign-Trail Promises
Here's a look at how things have turned out on several key campaign pledges a year after Trump's upset presidential victory.
November 15, 2017 – Education Week
Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains
The first review of revised academic standards in 24 states finds that, even with the changes, most states are maintaining key features of the Common Core State Standards.
November 29, 2017 – Education Week

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