Plain Local School District has been working with the i-Ready Diagnostic & Instruction and Ready programs from Curriculum Associates for a couple of school years. In that time, the school system has reported that it has been able to eliminate dozens of assessments in its K-8 schools.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/19/15
Karl Nelson is the director of the Digital Learning Department for the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. In this Q&A, he talks about how his state is using open educational resources to help support Common Core State Standards.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 06/18/15
Curriculum Associates has updated its online i-Ready Diagnostic & Instruction program with new close reading lessons for students in grades 3-5.
The company, which currently has 725,019 assessments, homework assignments, videos and lesson plans in its library, recently added questions from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Assess2Know Benchmark Item Bank and Higher Learning Technology (HLT).
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/10/15
The program is designed to provide a personalized learning path for each student, including scaffolding and explicit instruction that supports students if they struggle.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 06/08/15
The Missouri Legislature has banned the Smarter Balanced standardized tests, leaving Missouri education officials with nine months to come up with alternative standardized tests to avoid breaking federal law, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The 90,000-student district will adopt EL’s English language arts curriculum in grades four through eight in the 2015-2016 school year.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/03/15
Even as Common Core State Standards testing body PARCC has announced streamlined versions of its online assessments, Smarter Balanced, the other multi-state consortium, said it was meeting as well to "write and refine" its test questions.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/02/15
Curriculum resources developed for the state of New York have been downloaded nationally more than 20 million times. A new review evaluating the merits of the resources found them to be, on the whole, an "excellent" alternative to other options being pursued by states and districts.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/01/15
PARCC's governing board recently voted to consolidate the two testing windows into one and to reduce the total amount of testing time by about 90 minutes.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/27/15