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R Ferrazzani

Newslea - 1 views

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PARCC CCSS common core

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  • R Ferrazzani on 17 Oct 13
     
    Kathy Favazza sent this site out to our staff at Parker. This is the email message: At the PARCC and CCSS trainings that I attended in Chicago I learned of an amazing tool. It's called Newsela. It is a website that takes articles in various topics: War & Peace, Money, Kids, Science and Law and links them to the anchor literacy standards that we all need to address in our subjects. You can set up classes and assign articles for students to read. Some articles have text based follow up questions (those with a small anchor in the top right) that you can assign to students. The coolest feature however is that you can adjust the reading level of the articles!!!!
  • R Ferrazzani on 17 Oct 13
     
    I've played with this site and it is awesome. You can adjust the reading level of the texts. It has built in assessments like main idea. I highly recommend this resource for grades 4 through middle school.
Taylor Pelletier

U.S. Ed. Dept. Issues Guidance on 'Double-Testing' Flexibility - 2 views

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shared by Taylor Pelletier on 19 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Taylor Pelletier on 19 Sep 13
     
    According to this blog from Education Week, the Department of Education gives states the option of suspending their current tests if they choose to adminster the PARCC field test instead. I wondered whether MA and/or Reading would be interested in this option or whether we'd be adminstering the MCAS again this year. According to the article, when California expressed that they'd like to use only field tests this spring, they were threatened with losing Title 1 funding. It will be interesting to see what states and districts across the country decide to do!
  • John Doherty on 22 Sep 13
     
    Hi Taylor, Great link. This is currently a much discussed topic in our state. The Commissioner has given Superintendents the authority to excuse those students from the MCAS who are piloting that particular test on the PARRC. At first, it seemed like a good idea to do it, but there has been a lot of discussion as to whether or not there will be backlash for those students, grade levels, and schools that do not take the MCAS. Questions are being asked about how the scores will be determined if there is not as great a sample size. Does this penalize students if they do not take the MCAS? More to come.
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