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Tag: assessments

Are schools equipped to handle online Common Core assessments?

By Tyler on October 17th, 2012

This is one in a series of posts examining the Common Core State Standards and the conversation surrounding their impact on teaching and learning. I posted a couple of weeks ago about the site-crashing interest that schools and educators have inmore… full post

Common Core assessments push shift to ‘application’ of knowledge

By Tyler on October 4th, 2012

This is one in a series of posts examining the Common Core State Standards and the conversation surrounding their impact on teaching and learning. It’s pretty telling that when one of the groups designing new Common Core assessments posted somemore… full post