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Based in Washington State, the stated goals of this project are: (1) "aligning standards and expectations for mathematics....(2) increasing student success in completing math requirements in high school and college....(3) building capacity of teachers and instructors to align curriculum and instruction to standards....(4) communicating math expectations to students...." The project bridges the high school/college divide.

By Kristen Amundson, Op/Ed, The Washington Post, May 27 2011. Amundson argues that the state of Virginia is doing itself a disservice by allowing high school students to graduate with a "standard diploma." The diploma requires only three years of math, leaving many students unprepared for college math and thus required to enroll in developmental math.

Created by Pennsylvania's Department of Education, and part of the Standards Aligned System (SAS), launched March 2010. Database allows educators to search for appropriate digital materials for use in the classroom.

On PBS NewsHour, April 20, 2010. Jeffrey Brown interview with Mary Spilde and Hilary Pennington about the increased focus on boosting graduation rates in community colleges. Remedial education, innovative technology models and standards for accountabililty are topics covered.

Common Core State Standards development underway in 25-state consortium headed by Florida PARCC-- Note timeline and type of PD envisioned for teachers on CC--who will facilitate the use of modules with practicing professionals?

By Jennifer Gonzalez from the Students section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 19 2012. The article highlights a study, "State High School Exit Exams: A Policy in Transition" from the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University. It looks at 8 states that require HS exit exams that measure college-readiness, either via Common Core Standards or other.

By Dennis M. Walcott, National column, The Atlantic.com, May 1, 2012. Walcott is the chancellor of New York City's public schools. In this post, he discusses how the City has improved high school graduation rates, but must still raise the bar on preparedness. One step is adoption of the Common Core standards. This page also includes a link to New York City's Common Core Library, instructional resources created by NYC teachers.

By Ben Betts on his (corporate) blog, Ben Betts is stoatly different, July 23 2012. Tin Can is "the latest iteration of the SCORM family." [According to Wikipedia, "Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning."]. It appears to relate to learning analytics, and the blogger describes applications in the workplace (not merely for post-secondary education).

From Stephanie: This is a bit over my head, but might be of interest to the more technical among us.

Produced by VideoUserManuals, 2010. This is a manual for developers who create websites using WordPress (as a CMS). There are some helpful tips; they even share their own standard process for new site development.

Posted by Gerry on (blog) Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, Feb 6 2010. Cites article by John Dew in The Futurist, vol 44(2), p 46-51, Mar/Apr 2010. Basic trends include global standardization of curriculum, greater diversity of student body, and more options for when/where learning takes place.

By Virginia Heffernan in Opinionator in the New York Times. A review of Cathy Davidson's new book,Now You See It. Heffernan's review suggests that Davidson's new book argues that we not hold current students to out of date standards for education. Educators must not just embrace new technologies, but understand the position of these technologies in the changing world. Follow the davidson tag for her blog.

By Daniel R. Rehak, PhD., Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) technical advisor. Presented as keynote at Fourth International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M '10), September 27-28 2010 in Barcelona Spain. Rehak's basic point is that all of the learning materials already exist -- we just need a better, more viable, more searchable repository for them. Very nicely produced presentation.

By Daniel R. Rehak, PhD., Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) technical advisor. Presented as keynote at Fourth International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M '10), September 27-28 2010 in Barcelona Spain. Rehak's basic point is that all of the learning materials already exist -- we just need a better, more viable, more searchable repository for them. Very nicely produced presentation.

Interesting approach by PARCC on through-course assessments for K-12 students with particular significance for HS students as they assess how college ready they are, how they are growing content and skills to analyze, understand the content and apply, and how through-course assessments drive interventions, classroom practice, and support needed for teachers to understand CCSS and help their students to achieve them. Really like logic model on p 17. How does this, should this, could this affect MCNC's epi modeling? I-Lab practicum?