The Educator's Guide to Standards Insight: Common Core Standards Unpacked
This is a roadmap to finding the elements in the CCSS that apply to educators. It also includes a tool for schools and teams of teachers to work together to both understand the CCSS and develop curriculum and instruction aligned to the standards.
NCEO e-Newsletter
This is the first issue of the National Center on Educational Outcomes e-newsletter. In this issue, NCEO highlights the whirlwind of changes that we are all experiencing – the CCSS, the assessment consortia, shifting assessment policies, flexibility waivers, and more – and how they all relate to...
Treating Common-Core Syndrome
This article provides the author’s perspective and recommendations on how to assure that the Common Core State Standards become a long-term support to improved teaching and learning rather than falling by the wayside as have so many previous education reform movements.
Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core
Learning Forward’s Transforming Professional Learning to Prepare College- and Career-Ready Students: Implementing the Common Core is a multidimensional initiative focused on developing a comprehensive system of professional learning that spans the distance from the statehouse to the classroom. With...
A Strong State Role in Common Core State Standards Implementation: Rubric and Self-Assessment Tool
The purpose of this tool is to assist states in gauging the strength of their Common Core State Standards implementation plans and to illustrate how to improve them. A high scoring state according to the rubric and tool, has three essential attributes: a system design reflecting accountability for...
Implementing Common Core State Standards and Assessments
This workbook resource provides a framework and sample timelines for instituting the relevant policies and best practices to implement the Common Core States Standards (CCSS). The workbook offers implementation advice and critical exercises to guide this important effort.
Year Two of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: States’ Progress and Challenges
As of January 2012, 45 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics developed through the leadership of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Released in June 2010, these...
Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards
This guide focuses on the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), which formally began in June 2009 as a collaborative effort among nearly all U.S. states and territories. Forty-five states subsequently adopted the CCSS in mathematics and English language arts (ELA) and joined one of two...