Core Question: Will ‘Pausing’ Common Core Cost Indiana Its NCLB Waiver?
Indiana lawmakers crafted Common Core pause legislation so it wouldn’t run afoul of the state’s federal No Child Left Behind waiver.
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October 2, 2012
How Changing High School Exit Exams Could Prepare More Students For College
End-of-course assessments — the tenth grade exams Indiana high school students must pass in order to graduate — aren’t a great predictor of success in college. But that could change when Indiana adopts Common Core academic standards and replaces end-of-course assessments with the PARCC exam in 2014. According to a recent Center on Education Policy report, many states are [...]
How Changing High School Exit Exams Could Prepare More Students For College
End-of-course assessments — the tenth grade exams Indiana high school students must pass in order to graduate — aren’t a great predictor of success in college. But that could change when Indiana adopts Common Core academic standards and replaces end-of-course assessments with the PARCC exam in 2014. According to a recent Center on Education Policy report, many states are [...]
April 23, 2012
Q&A: Why Downplaying The Common Core Could Be A Bad Idea
Kathleen Porter-Magee studies the state academic standards for the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that generally supports vouchers, charter schools and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. (We wrote about that last week.) She, like many education policy wonks, has her reservations about the Common Core. She worries the new standardized tests [...]
Q&A: Why Downplaying The Common Core Could Be A Bad Idea
Kathleen Porter-Magee studies the state academic standards for the Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank that generally supports vouchers, charter schools and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. (We wrote about that last week.) She, like many education policy wonks, has her reservations about the Common Core. She worries the new standardized tests [...]