The Common Core State Standards

2. The Common Core State Standards Why Do We Care?

3. One Word: Rigor College and Career Readiness Requires RIGOR

4. Right now, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require more than a high school diploma. And yet, just over half of our citizens have that level of education.

5. The quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations. America has fallen to 9th in the proportion of young people with a college degree.

6. ACT Study – Schmeiser, 2006 Chance of later success Science Mathematics Unprepared in Reading Prepared in Reading 1% 32% 15% 67%

7. "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world... The countries that out-teach us today will out-compete us tomorrow.”

9. Change in text complexity in textbooks over the last century Source: Metametrics

10. Today’s text gap Source: Metametrics

11. Common Core: Common Success Align to Building Goals Great News: 66% Done!

12. Read: Non-Fiction Relate: Numeracy Write: Persuasive Critical Thinking: Higher Level

13. To Argue . . . and Inform. . . in Writing CCSS Requires Argument / Evidence-based Writing Distribution of Communicative Purposes by Grade in the 2011 NAEP Writing Framework Source: National Assessment Governing Board (2007). Writing framework for the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, pre-publication edition. Iowa City, IA. ACT, Inc. It follows that writing assessments aligned with the Standards should adhere to the distribution of writing purpose across grades outlined by NAEP.

14. Percentage distribution of literary and informational passages – Non Fiction is Key Source: National Assessment Governing Board. Reading Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Washington, D.C.: American Institutes for Research, 2007.

15. Cognitive Targets – CCSS Requires Focus on Rigorous Elements NAEP 2009 PISA 2009 Locating / Recalling Integrating / Interpreting Critiquing / Evaluating Accessing and retrieving Integrating and interpreting Reflecting and evaluating

16. Text Lexile® levels today and with Common Core – Rigor Increased 3 Grade Levels Current Typical text measures (by grade) Common Core Text complexity grade bands and associated Lexile ranges

17. One Key Action: Plan

18. NSF / CCSSO: Misalignment of the content of instruction (instruction &curriculum) has the LARGEST EFFECT SIZE of variables on student achievement variance. Ed Researcher Vol31, #7

19. Read: Non-Fiction Relate: Numeracy Write: Persuasive Critical Thinking: Higher Level