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"Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment is a two-part resource that provides educators with an understanding of what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are with steps to integrate them into classroom practice. Following this, Robert J. Marzano and his colleagues supply readers with hundreds of ready-to-use proficiency scales created from the CCSS to help teachers assess students' progress. This book will help...
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"For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation's youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the "reformers" today find themselves facing the largest revolt...
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"No sooner is a child walking and talking than the ABCs and 1-2-3s give way to the full-on alphabet soup: the ERBs, the OLSAT, the IQ, the NCLB for AYP, the IEP for ELLs, the CHAT and PDDST for ASD or LD and G&T or ADD and ADHD, the PSATs, then the ACTs and SATs-all designed to assess and monitor a child's readiness for education. In many public schools, students are spending up to 28% of instructional time on testing and test prep. Starting this...