Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Grade Level: Middle School (6-8)

How Are Common Core Standards Impacting Teaching Math to ELLs?

In this episode of Bam! Radio (an all-education radio network that offers programming from top education organizations and leaders), hosted by Larry Ferlazzo, a panel of experts discuss Common Core-aligned instructional strategies for teaching math to English learners (ELs). The panelists are Drs. Gladis Kersaint and Denisse Thompson, professors of mathematics education at the University […]

MDC Introductory Guide to Formative Assessment Workshop

The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides instructional tools and professional support services meant to help teachers collect ongoing and immediate evidence of student learning. The instructional tools include formative assessment lessons (FALs), known as Classroom Challenges, as well as formative assessment strategies embedded within each lesson. The professional support services include course outlines and lesson […]

Early Progress: Interim Report on Personalized Learning

The RAND Corporation, commissioned by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is conducting an ongoing study of schools using personalized learning practices. Personalized learning “is an educational approach in which teachers and schools create systems, tools, and methodologies that tailor instruction to the individual needs, skills, and interests of each student, in an effort to […]

Teachers Know Best: Teachers’ Views on Professional Development

Professional development, a term that broadly encompasses professional learning for teachers, is the topic of this study, conducted by the Boston Consulting Group on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of this study on professional development for teachers is to help identify needs and opportunities for improvement. Over 1,300 participants – […]

Refugee Children in U.S. Schools: A Toolkit for Teachers and School Personnel

This collection of resources is for schools and educators seeking to support refugee students, who are often newcomer English learners, in the areas of child welfare, parent involvement, social integration, and other topics specifically connected to refugees. The stated purposes of this toolkit are to facilitate information-sharing among schools that are serving refugee children, provide […]

Reading and Math in the Common Core Era

This Brooking’s Brown Center Report (BCR) considers variations in different states’ implementation of Common Core State Standards to look at the association of the standards with reading and mathematics performance. The report focuses on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment performance in grades four and eight.