In joint partnership, Achieve, The Council of Chief State School Officers, and Student Achievement Partners have developed a Toolkit for Evaluating the Alignment of Instructional and Assessment Materials to the Common Core State Standards.
A new report by the Strategic Data Project and the Delaware Department of Education shows that the state's educators have improved their ability to track college readiness.
The Florida State Board of Education decided on July 16 that school grades will not fall by more than one letter, regardless of their score, when rankings are released soon.
The U.S. Department of Education has offered states with waivers from provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act additional time to begin using new teacher evaluation systems in hiring, firing, and promoting educators.
The latest Education Trust report found that Maryland students made a 12-point gain on fourth grade reading scores between 2003 and 2011 based on NAEP scores.
New Hampshire is the most recent state to receive a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act.
California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson says he will recommend that the State Board of Education adopt the proposed Next Generation Science Standards, which aim to provide all students with the science skills they need to compete for jobs after graduation.
The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) issued another round of school classifications on July 2.
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi has announced that the state will withdraw from testing through the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), which is aligned with the Common Core standards.
According to the long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress results, U.S. elementary and middle-school students have made sizable gains on national math and reading tests in the past four decades, but high-school students have made none.
Email
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn