Common Core Standards and the New Assessment Consortia- 1/18/11

IRA Reading Group

Lunch served

Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm

Host: Barb Kapinus, NEA

Location:

NEA

1201 16th St. NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

(At 16^th and M St.)

Red line Farragut North Station.

(From the Orange and Blue line you can get to NEA from McPherson Square station without transferring to the Red line.)

Topic:

Common Core Standards and the

New Assessment Consortia

Background:

English Language Arts Standards:

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards

RSVP! to mbell@reading.org

ALIGNING ASSESSMENTS with Common Core State Standards- Achieve

ALIGNING ASSESSMENTS WITH

THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

“The goal of the Common Core State Standards Initiative is to ensure that states have a progression of K- 2 standards in place that ensure that students have the knowledge and skills in mathematics and English Language Arts to graduate from high school ready for college and careers.  Just as states will need to modify or create new curriculum frameworks and instructional materials to match the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), states will also need to significantly alter their assessments to ensure alignment with the CCSS. Assessments play a critical role in state education systems, providing consistent measures of whether or not students are meeting or exceeding the state’s academic standards. A coherent assessment system anchored in college- and career-ready expectations will include a combination of measures designed to meet the following goals…”

http://www.achieve.org/files/CCSS&Assessments.pdf