Ruchti, Wendy, Susan Jenkins, and Joachim Agamba. “Critical Supports for Secondary Educators in Common Core State Standard Implementation.” The Clearing House. 86.6 (2013):
246-254. MasterFILE Elite. Web. 16 Oct 2015.
The authors, all PhD’s, located at Iowa State University, College of Education. The focus of the article relates to teacher professional development. A study of the implications of the Total Instructional Alignment (TIA) used in Iowa public schools. Furthermore, the three authors determined the challenges of meeting the specific needs of professional development. The challenge included limited time for preparing students to meet the college and career readiness objective. The perceived beliefs of teachers concerning support …show more content…
A complete copy, included in this column, of a speech given by Dianne Ravitch, an educational historian and a champion against corporate influenced school reforms. This speech presented to the Modern Language Association. Her speech clearly was against the implementation of Common Core. Included in the speech, Ravitch characterizes several supporters and objectors to Common Core. The focus of the speech referenced the past, present and future of Common Core. Reported by Ravitch, “The Common Core Standards have arrived at a time when public education is under attack. Upheaval, assault, and chaos prevail in public schools through Common Core.” “Never in the past,” she explained, “have schools endured such change and chaos as they are today”. However, by saying that no other nation in the world has made so many changes is consistent with her ideology. The imposition of mandates on teachers in the public schools, in the past dozen years, are not relevant. Finally, Ravitch introduced, the assumption that the financial costs of implementing the Common Core never got mentioned in the national …show more content…
Schmidt, a University Distinguished Professor, founder and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum, and co- director of the Education Policy Center. As a faculty member Schmidt holds an appointment in measurement and quantitative methods and the Department of Statistics. Published in numerous journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Schmidt is a successful educator. Richard Houang, a senior research specialist and an adjunct faculty member in measurement and quantitative methods and currently serves as the director of research for the Center for the Study of Curriculum (CSC). Focusing on curriculum assessment, the relationship between mathematics and science curriculum and student achievement, item characteristics and student performance, domain-referenced and classroom assessment as a field of study. These authors studied the specific implementation of Common Core in public schools. The time to stop debating the quality of education and move to assuring that Common Core accurately defines content coverage according to the authors. A vision of the evidence of what can be in the United States education field. By saying, without the move to Common Core our children will arbitrarily suffer ill effects. The analysis submitted was significant. The characteristics identified in the study were focus, rigor, and coherence. Schmidt
246-254. MasterFILE Elite. Web. 16 Oct 2015.
The authors, all PhD’s, located at Iowa State University, College of Education. The focus of the article relates to teacher professional development. A study of the implications of the Total Instructional Alignment (TIA) used in Iowa public schools. Furthermore, the three authors determined the challenges of meeting the specific needs of professional development. The challenge included limited time for preparing students to meet the college and career readiness objective. The perceived beliefs of teachers concerning support …show more content…
A complete copy, included in this column, of a speech given by Dianne Ravitch, an educational historian and a champion against corporate influenced school reforms. This speech presented to the Modern Language Association. Her speech clearly was against the implementation of Common Core. Included in the speech, Ravitch characterizes several supporters and objectors to Common Core. The focus of the speech referenced the past, present and future of Common Core. Reported by Ravitch, “The Common Core Standards have arrived at a time when public education is under attack. Upheaval, assault, and chaos prevail in public schools through Common Core.” “Never in the past,” she explained, “have schools endured such change and chaos as they are today”. However, by saying that no other nation in the world has made so many changes is consistent with her ideology. The imposition of mandates on teachers in the public schools, in the past dozen years, are not relevant. Finally, Ravitch introduced, the assumption that the financial costs of implementing the Common Core never got mentioned in the national …show more content…
Schmidt, a University Distinguished Professor, founder and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum, and co- director of the Education Policy Center. As a faculty member Schmidt holds an appointment in measurement and quantitative methods and the Department of Statistics. Published in numerous journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Schmidt is a successful educator. Richard Houang, a senior research specialist and an adjunct faculty member in measurement and quantitative methods and currently serves as the director of research for the Center for the Study of Curriculum (CSC). Focusing on curriculum assessment, the relationship between mathematics and science curriculum and student achievement, item characteristics and student performance, domain-referenced and classroom assessment as a field of study. These authors studied the specific implementation of Common Core in public schools. The time to stop debating the quality of education and move to assuring that Common Core accurately defines content coverage according to the authors. A vision of the evidence of what can be in the United States education field. By saying, without the move to Common Core our children will arbitrarily suffer ill effects. The analysis submitted was significant. The characteristics identified in the study were focus, rigor, and coherence. Schmidt