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Repetition and Clarity in Standards

Do “X” in third grade; keep doing “X” in fourth grade. What’s confusing about that?

I happened to be reading Fordham’s review of the old NECAP Reading Grade Level Expections, used by…

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Why Are the Common Core Standards Interested in 18th Century American Literature?

Get ready for the Philip Freneau revival.

From the 11-12th grade Reading standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.9…

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The Anchor Standards

The root of many problems in the Common Core Standards

There are a few basic premises in the Common Core ELA/Literacy standards for Reading:

There is a fairly short set of discrete skills necessary to be…

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About My Stories

Confessions of a Common Core obsessive.

I have been preoccupied with the Common Core English standards, now officially known as ELA/Literacy standards, since the first drafts were released in 2010. For me they are some kind of intellectual brain…

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English-language Arts Work Group for College and Career Readiness Standards (the Anchor Standards)

Once these people wrote the anchor standards, everything else was just fine tuning.

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Who Wrote Common Core State Standards Initiative Standards-Setting Criteria?

If it is a secret, it is a conspiracy.

On their Process page, the Common Core State Standards Initiative (which is not an organization) includes a…

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Which Standards Am I Talking About?

ELA/Literacy, mostly reading, mostly high school.

One constant problem in the discourse about the Common Core Standards is getting people to specify which ones they’re talking about. The Math and ELA/Literacy…

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Illuminating the complexities, contradictions and screw-ups of the Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

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