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Education Week: Districts Push for Texts Aligned to Common Core - 1 views

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  • Published Online: July 17, 2012 Published in Print: July 18, 2012, as Big Districts Push for Teaching Texts Aligned to Common Core Districts Push for Texts Aligned to Common Core By Christina A. Samuels Printer-Friendly Email Article Reprints Comments Like Liked </l
  • est districts have come together to say they will only buy common-core instructional materials that meet a set of "publishers' criteria" written by a nonprofit organization that played a leading role in crafting the new standards.
  • "we need to make sure we demand that publishers respect the work that we've done on the common core." The pact among the school districts "will make it a little easier to hold publishers' feet to the fire," he said.
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  • The agreement includes districts serving New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; Clark County, Nev.; and Hillsborough County, Fla., all among the nation's largest.
  • The standards themselves, however, don't go into detail on how student textbooks and instructional materials should look, thus the creation of the publishers' criteria.
  • To fully reflect the standards, for example, the publishers' criteria for grades 3-12 note that "80 to 90 percent of the reading standards in each grade require text-dependent analysis; accordingly, aligned curriculum materials should have a similar percentage of text-dependent questions."
  • An example of part of the publishers' criteria for grades K-2 notes that "though there is a productive role for good general questions for teachers and students to have at hand, materials should not over-rely on 'cookie cutter' questions that could be asked of a text, such as, 'What is the main idea? Provide three supporting details.' " Rather, the criteria say, questions should be individually crafted and draw students into the texts at hand.
  • it's a long way from setting criteria to developing, adopting, and publishing curricular materials and programs,
  • The question publishers have, he said, is how the criteria will figure into actual procurement decisions.
  • "It really shifts more toward comprehension and asking the right type of questions, as opposed to 'read this text and answer these questions.' "
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