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Successful Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials Report
Teachers gather for a training session at SATO Academy of Math and Science in Long Beach, California, as they get ready for the first day of school. (Getty/Brittany Murray)

Successful Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials

Numerous studies underscore the effects of high-quality curricula on student achievement, but to achieve the intended goal of adopting such curricula, careful attention must be paid to the implementation process.

Amanda Fuchs Miller, Lisette Partelow

Revisited: Do Schools Challenge Our Students? Article
A student reads test questions on a laptop computer at Annapolis Middle School in Annapolis, Maryland, on February 12, 2015. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Revisited: Do Schools Challenge Our Students?

Although many students still don’t feel like they are being challenged in the classroom, there have been clear instructional improvements associated with standards-based reform.

Ulrich Boser, Perpetual Baffour

Remedial Education Report
Remedial classes increase students’ time to degree attainment and decrease their likelihood of completion.

Remedial Education

As many as 60 percent of entering college freshmen are placed into remedial education courses to develop skills that they should have learned in high school, at a cost of more than $1 billion annually.

Laura Jimenez, Scott Sargrad, Jessica Morales, 1 More Maggie Thompson

Reading, Writing, and the Common Core State Standards Report
A third-grader works on her classroom's SMART Board during a grammar lesson in Freeman, South Dakota, in January 2014. (AP/Jeremy Waltner)

Reading, Writing, and the Common Core State Standards

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the workplace.

Melissa Lazarín

Lessons From State Performance on NAEP Report
Students take a test during school in New York, March 2011. (AP/Richard Drew)

Lessons From State Performance on NAEP

A new CAP report shows that standards-based reform helps low-income students.

Ulrich Boser, Catherine Brown

Math Matters Report
A 12-year-old student works on math problems as part of a trial run of a new state assessment test in Annapolis, Maryland, February 12, 2015. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Math Matters

Staying the course with Common Core-aligned math instruction will afford students not only greater understanding of conceptual mathematics, but also more opportunity in the job market.

Max Marchitello, Catherine Brown

Teacher Leadership: The Pathway to Common Core Success Video

Teacher Leadership: The Pathway to Common Core Success

Several school districts throughout the country are empowering teachers to lead the way to successful implementation of the Common Core.

Andrew Satter, Andrew Amore, Kaitlin Pennington, 1 More Nichole M. Hoeflich

Teacher Leadership Report
Teachers in California's Poway Unified School District meet to discuss a Common Core-aligned math curriculum. (CAP/Andrew Satter)

Teacher Leadership

A new CAP report highlights six districts that are using teacher leadership and labor-management collaboration to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards.

Andrew Amore, Nichole M. Hoeflich, Kaitlin Pennington

For Women and Girls, the Common Core Is a Step Toward Greater Equity Fact Sheet
Stacey Jacobson-Francis works on math homework with her 6-year-old daughter at their home in Berkeley, California. (AP)

For Women and Girls, the Common Core Is a Step Toward Greater Equity

The Common Core State Standards represent an important step toward closing achievement gaps and opening the door to higher-paying science, technology, engineering, and math jobs for millions of low-income girls and girls of color.

Testing Overload in America’s Schools Report

Testing Overload in America’s Schools

States and school districts are far from the goal of better, fairer, and fewer tests.

Melissa Lazarín

Politics Threaten Efforts to Improve K-12 Education Report
Tennessee House members participate in a debate about a bill to delay the implementation of Common Core standards in state schools in March 2014 (AP/Erik Schelzig)

Politics Threaten Efforts to Improve K-12 Education

Over the past year, the Common Core State Standards have become increasingly contentious. But research shows support for the Common Core’s principles remains high.

Max Marchitello

Roadmap for a Successful Transition to the Common Core in States and Districts Report
Estudiantes de primer grado de Burgess-Peterson Elementary School estudian una lección durante un programa extraescolar de refuerzo de las escuelas públicas de Atlanta, Georgia.

Roadmap for a Successful Transition to the Common Core in States and Districts

States and districts across the country are using promising and effective practices to implement the Common Core, but more work remains to ensure a smooth transition to the new standards.

Carmel Martin, Max Marchitello, Melissa Lazarín

The Common Core Is an Opportunity for Education Equity Report
Claudia Prada, izquierda, enseña Español en el 8avo grado en View Park Prep Charter School en el Sur de Los Angeles. (AP/Ric Francis)

The Common Core Is an Opportunity for Education Equity

Across the country, low-income students, students of color, English language learners, and students with disabilities often do not receive the same high-quality education as their peers. The Common Core State Standards take the first step toward ensuring education equity.

Better Serving the Children of Our Servicemen and Women Report
First Lt. Jason Felker holds his son at a January 2014 welcome home ceremony for the Georgia Army National Guard’s 1-214th Field Artillery Battalion in Elberton, Georgia. (Will Cox / Flickr)

Better Serving the Children of Our Servicemen and Women

The Common Core State Standards will provide military-connected children—who often change schools frequently as their parents move from duty station to duty station—with more consistent and high-quality education.

Common Core State Standards Assessments Report

Common Core State Standards Assessments

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers—have the potential to improve student mastery.

Morgan S. Polikoff

Common Core Implementation Best Practices Testimony

Common Core Implementation Best Practices

Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President for Policy, testifies before the New York State Office of the Governor Common Core Implementation Panel.

Carmel Martin

A Guide to the Common Core State Standards Article
Amy Lawson, a fifth-grade teacher at Silver Lake Elementary School in Middletown, Delaware, teaches an English language arts lesson Tuesday, October 1, 2013. The school has begun implementing the national Common Core State Standards for academics. (AP/Steve Ruark)

A Guide to the Common Core State Standards

These fact sheets on states implementing the Common Core document the current state of student achievement, demonstrate the imperative on why higher standards are important, and offer a side-by-side comparison on how the Common Core State Standards will raise student achievement.

Using Teacher Evaluation Reform and Professional Development to Support Common Core Assessments Report
New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can support the types of teacher knowledge acquisition and changes in instructional practices called for by the Common Core Standards and assessments. (AP/Brendan Hoffman)

Using Teacher Evaluation Reform and Professional Development to Support Common Core Assessments

New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can support the types of teacher knowledge acquisition and changes in instructional practices called for by the Common Core Standards and assessments.

Peter Youngs

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