The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) has released a new research bulletin titled Preparing Students for the Next America: The Benefits of an Arts Education. The bulletin offers a snapshot of how arts education can greatly enhance literacy and mathematics skills, while ensuring a competitive and comprehensive education for every young person in America.
On Monday, April 29, Student Achievement Partners has announced an upgrade of their website, www.achievethecore.org.
In his State of the State Address, Maine Gov. Paul LePage unveiled a new grading system for the state's public schools, each of which will receive their own A-F letter grade. For elementary schools, math and reading proficiency -- measured by standardized assessments and progress -- will be equally weighted to determine a grade.
This week in Chiefline: Why the Common Core makes common sense; Alaska joins assessment consortia
This week in Chiefline: Why the Common Core makes common sense; Alaska joins assessment consortia
The Illinois State Board of Education recognized a total of 624 schools with Illinois Honor Roll awards. The awards are given to schools with high poverty rates that have overcome the odds, those that have achieved high-performance scores for three straight years, and those with improvement ratings of 7.5 percent in one year or 15 percent in two years.
The Pennsylvania Department of Education stresses that the Common Core State Standards are academic standards -- not a curriculum -- that aim to prepare students to succeed in higher education or the workforce. "Look at it as if the state standards are what you need to know to cross the goal line," says spokesman Tim Eller.
Jeff Roper, an English teacher at Declo High School in Declo, Idaho, discredits claims by critics that the Common Core State Standards initiative amounts to a federal takeover of local schools, stressing that the standards were created by state education departments, national business leaders, and an assortment of education experts, including teachers and national education reform leaders.
The draft Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, has been released for public comment through June 20, 2013, moving the state closer to implementing the Common Core State Standards for math.
Officials in Tennessee have formed a 22-member State Leadership Council to help the state transition to the Common Core Standards, which are meant to ensure that high school students in participating states -- so far, 45 states and the District of Columbia are on board -- are learning the same information and are equally prepared for graduation.
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