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Common Core: Standards, Adoption, and Implementation

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Summary

The Common Core State Standards Initiative sought to make expectations in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics more consistent across participating U.S. states. This lesson traces the movement’s background, how the standards were drafted, and how states adopted or reconsidered them.

During the 1990s, a movement grew to establish educational standards that would identify what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. It also called for ways to determine whether students were meeting those expectations. The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act required states to set standards in ELA and mathematics. Some states wrote new standards, while others divided existing grade-band expectations into grade-specific ones.

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Common Core State Standards Initiative
A multi-state effort to establish shared K–12 expectations in English language arts and mathematics.
Common Core sponsors
The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
Standards versus curriculum
Standards set learning expectations; local educators and school systems choose curricula and instruction.
Mathematical Practices
Eight habits and approaches students use while learning mathematics, intended across kindergarten through grade 12.
English language proficiency development standards
Standards that describe English proficiency development; initially, Common Core left these to individual states.

Quiz questions

  1. Which five strands organize Common Core English language arts and literacy standards?Answer: Reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and media and technology
  2. Which set names the six conceptual categories for high school Common Core mathematics content?Answer: Number and Quantity, Algebra, Functions, Modeling, Geometry, Statistics and Probability
  3. What do Common Core standards specify, as distinct from a curriculum?Answer: What students should know and be able to do at each grade level
  4. What assessment approach did the PARCC consortium emphasize?Answer: Computer-based through-course assessments with streamlined end-of-year tests
  5. What was a central feature of Smarter Balanced assessments?Answer: Adaptive online exams

Based on the Wikipedia article Common Core, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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