The Hechinger Report

Common Core has students writing — on just about every subject

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Education Week

Response: Writing Instruction & the Common Core - Part Three

(This is the final post in a series on this topic. You can see Part One here and Part Two here) Anjilla Young and Lori DiGisi both asked a similar question: What can we do to prepare for the Common ...
Education Week

Preparing Students To Write Is ‘About Our Own Collaboration’

Heather Wolpert-Gawron is an award-winning middle school teacher. She has authored workbooks on teaching Internet Literacy, Project Based Writing, and Nonfiction Reading Strategies for the Common Core ...
LAist

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...
Center for American Progress

Reading, Writing, and the Common Core State Standards

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the ...
AZ Central

Arizona revises Common Core-based learning standards, adds cursive-writing requirement

Cursive-writing requirement among the most significant changes to standards Board vote concludes nearly two years of deliberation on Arizona's learning standards State Superintendent Diane Douglas ...
NPR

The Common Core FAQ

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...