With nearly all states adopting the Common Core ... recommend Lexile measures for evaluating text complexity and offer Lexile grade bands to guide publishers in developing grade level content.

Today’s guest blog is written by Larry Ainsworth, author of Prioritizing the Common Core: Identifying Specific ... of each and every standard in a grade level or course within a limited number ...

An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. An in-depth discussion of ...

Under the Common Core State Standards in mathematics ... The standards, shown here by grade, have been edited for length and clarity.

Education activists are increasingly becoming concerned about the computer grading of written portions of new Common Core ... grade 11, where the mean was just above 1.” This chart shows ...

Undergirding the Common Core State Standards is an assumption: If we can get all students performing at grade level, then – voila! – high school graduates become college- and career-ready.

Chris Christie declared that Common Core academic standards were "simply ... outline what skills students should learn in each grade level. "It won't be substantially different," said Mark ...

Eighth-grade ... high-level classes. Students are still separated into different classes — there are others in pre-algebra classes, not shown in the results. And even within Common Core, school ...

“It goes beyond Common Core to embrace common sense.” State standards are benchmarks that dictate what students must know by the end of each grade level, and how courses are taught is shaped ...

Most notably, Common Core requires students to be taught grade-level texts, a stark shift from the conventional wisdom that has dominated English classrooms for decades and dictates that students ...