The nonprofit organization Common Core includes more than 100 arts-infused activities in a set of detailed “curriculum maps” for the English/language arts standards that it created to help ...

Updated April 24 with additional information. Lesson plans and teacher training programs at the K-12 level aren’t the only things being updated to reflect the new Common Core State Standards. The ...

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The public has until the end of this month to contribute to a final review of the pre-K-12 arts education standards—covering dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts—proposed by the ...

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts document is replete with standards and statements that call for students to develop effective communication skills—in writing, in the creation ...

Is Common Core tougher on special education students? 03:49 NEW YORK - Nothing lights up 10 year-old Billy Flood's face brighter than when you talk to him about music. The pint-size Beatles fan ...

Using Visual Storytelling to Teach Common Core ELA and Math. By Christopher Piehler; 08/17/15; Stacie Isenberg is the technology integration coach at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District (PA), which ...

A. Common Core standards in math and English language arts replaced California’s previous state standards, on which students were assessed using the former STAR tests. The new standards are considered ...

Sally Wojcek, a theater arts teacher at the Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia, points to Common Core as the reason she’s incorporated a different kind of reading in her classes.

The Common Core literacy standards were intended to shift instruction toward building knowledge and away from illusory reading comprehension “skills.” But many teachers have stuck with ...

The fatal flaws in the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards went unnoticed because over 45 state boards of education and/or their governors hastily adopted the standards in 2010, ...

by Elizabeth Howald. Eighty-seven percent of K-12 students in the U.S. live in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards. Though this widespread approval is no small feat in a country ...