The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) has announced a new planning tool and guidance for schools and districts that will help them prepare for new assessments in the 2014-2015 school year.
CCSSO has worked with a consortium of three states to develop an Online Professional Development Guide. The guide is aimed at meeting the needs for support of local educators as they transition to the Common Core State Standards.
At the Children's Museum of Phoenix, the Arizona Department of Education, the Arizona Head Start State Collaboration Office, and several foundations gathered to celebrate the state's selection as a "pacesetter" by the National Campaign for Grade Level Reading.
MetaMetrics has released a new Policy Brief titled Looking Worse Before We Look Better: Student Performance in a Common Core World. As states move from adoption of the Common Core State Standards to implementation, there are critical transitional steps that will loom large in the success or failure of this movement.
Full implementation of the Common Core State Standards and assessments will begin in the 2014-15 school year, says the Florida Department of Education. Teachers in the state are making sure students are ready for success by incorporating innovative teaching techniques that support the new standards.
The Louisiana Department of Education has launched the interactive online Classroom Support Toolbox on Louisianabelieves.com to help school districts and educators prepare for the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
According to the Maine Department of Education, the state's four-year graduation rate rose for the third consecutive year, climbing to 85.34 percent in the 2011-12 school year. The rate has climbed almost 5 percent since 2009 and edged up about 1.5 percent over the past year. The graduation rate was 91.5 percent for publicly funded private schools.
The Grad Nation campaign set a goal in 2010 that by 2020, the high school graduation rate would be 90 percent. The coalition's latest report shows that with a four-year graduation rate of 78.2 percent in 2010, the pace of improvement is picking up, and some states could meet that goal sooner if the progress continues.
Oklahoma Superintendent Janet Barresi has introduced proposed changes to the A-F school grading system. Under the proposed changes, schools would receive credit for each advanced course a student takes, the school climate survey would be scrapped, and districts would have more time to verify data they send to the state.
Vermont Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca says Vermont will begin using the Smarter Balance computer-based assessment by the spring of 2015, abandoning the standardized, paper-based NECAPS test. The NECAPS test measures math, reading, and writing skills and tests students using the same set of questions.
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