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Massachusetts Department of Education outlines curriculum frameworks for history and English.
Chandler Preparatory Academy, Phoenix, AZ.
Core Knowledge Resources provides a guide to shared content for greater excellence and fairness in education.
International Baccalaureate offers three programs of international education for ages 3 to 19. To learn about the International Baccalaureate in action, visit Rufus King High School’s website. Rufus King is a public school in Milwaukee, WI, with one of the oldest International Baccalaureate programs in the nation.
K12 Online Courses works to enable mastery of core concepts and skills for all kinds of children’s minds.
Junior Great Books program helps develop essential literacy skills.
NEH’s Picturing America allows people of all ages to learn about our nation’s heritage through some of our greatest works of art.
Siskiyou County History Day has local 4th to 12th graders compete in various categories based on themes that change yearly. Winners go on to compete in California’s State History Day.
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning provides drama, music, and movement education for children 3–5 and their teachers and families.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers resources for teachers who use primary documents to excite and inform their students.
The Dallas Institute's three-week Summer Institute for Teachers provides educators the opportunity for intensive study of primary texts.
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February 20 • In this Education Week webinar Lynne Munson talks about how the arts can play a powerful role in CCSS implementation. To register for the archived webinar, sign in here. Or view Lynne’s PowerPoint where she unveils high school-level TDQs comparing two works of art.
February 11 • This morning on Rick Hess’s Straight Up blog is a “thoughtful conversation” he had with Student Achievement Partners Founding Member Jason Zimba on CCSS, math in particular. Lynne Munson commented on the interview, and her views also can be read in today’s Common Core blog
December 17 • Check out Education Week’s article “Arts Education Seen as Common-Core Partner.” Education Week
July 18 • Common Core has announced that the New York State Department of Education has awarded the organization a third contract to develop 6th-12th grade mathematics curriculum and corresponding professional development aligned to New York State’s Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS). News release.
May 7 • Common Core receives glowing reviews for professional development offered in Beaufort County, NC. Read the full story in the Washington Daily News.
April 25 • Common Core’s Lynne Munson comments on the pressures of high stakes testing and the effect it can have on student learning in Roberta Munoz’s article “Make it of Break it: High Stakes Testing Pros and Cons” on Education.com
April 4 • Common Core has announced that the New York State Department of Education has awarded it two contracts to develop
Pre-Kindergarten-5th grade mathematics curriculum aligned to NY State’s Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS). News release.
April 3 • Common Core Creating Math Maps for New York State. News release.
March 27 • Common Core has announced that it is developing a series of CCSS-aligned K-8 curriculum maps in history and geography. News release.
March 21 • Check out Education Week’s coverage of Common Core’s “Truant From Schools: History, Science, and Art” event!
March 15 • Common Core releases data showing curriculum narrowing affecting all students.
March 9 • Common Core celebrates Virginia’s decision to abandon SB185, a bill that would have eliminated state mandated science and social studies testing for third graders. You can read more about this issue, and Common Core’s advocacy work, in this recent blog entry.
December 8 • Check out Education Week’s coverage of Common Core’s recent national survey of school teachers.
November 14 • Read Lynne Munson’s response to the latest NAEP results. Joanne Jacobs’s “Linking and Thinking on Education” and the Core Knowledge blog also highlighted her piece.