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Study: Students Made More Progress When Tutoring Reinforced Core Curriculum

Knox County Schools looked like it was doing everything right. The district was using a well-regarded, evidence-based ...
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Common Core Damage Will Last for Years to Come

Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...
Education Week

The Search for Common-Core Curricula: Where Are Teachers Finding Materials?

In common-core states, nearly all math and language arts teachers are at least somewhat reliant on materials they’ve developed or selected themselves, according to a new nationally representative ...
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Tutoring aligned with core lessons boosts student progress

A randomized study in Knox County Schools found that early elementary students made greater literacy gains when tutoring used materials aligned with their core classroom curriculum rather than ...
Education Week

Most Math Curricula Found to Be Out of Sync With Common Core

For an updated version of this story, see “Review of Math Programs Comes Under Fire.” The first round of a Consumer Reports-style review for instructional materials paints a dismal picture of the ...