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- 08-11-2011
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By Catherine Gewertz/Education Week
Common academic standards, adopted by nearly every state, lay out big shifts in expectations for teachers and students in mathematics and English/language arts. Now a new set of documents edges closer to offering a vision of how those standards might look in the classroom and on tests. The documents were released by the two groups of states that are designing assessments for the new standards. One group, the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium, or SBAC, released its “content maps and specifications in English/language arts yesterday. The other, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, unveiled its “content frameworks” in both subjects last week. (more...)
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