common core
Common Core opt-out movement is parents who can't handle their kids failing
It’s that time of year again, when upper-middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school. Last year, very concerned moms led 240,000 New York students to opt-out...
Over 400,000 NYC students take Common Core exams
With the threat of opt-outs looming, more than 400,000 city public- and charter-schools kids on Tuesday sat for the first day of the Common Core English Language Arts tests in...
'Opt out:' Teachers email parents to boycott Common Core tests
Renegade city public school teachers have been sending emails to parents the past week encouraging them to boycott the state English and math Common Core exams being administered citywide starting...
The opt-out crowd won't quit until all tests are meaningless
The teachers unions and their pawns won last year’s fight over state tests hands-down. So why are they still fighting? The annual testing starts this week. But some teachers still...
Passing the Common Core: High School Math
The Basics: In high school, students use a deeper understanding of mathematics to solve real-world problems. While in elementary and middle school, the math skills children need to know are...
Passing the Common Core: High School English
The Basics: In high school English Language Arts, students read works of literature and informational texts with a critical eye. They analyze classic and contemporary works from various eras, cultures...
Passing the Common Core: 8th grade
The Basics: In math, students tackle the Pythagorean theorem, bringing their math to a higher level of algebraic reasoning and knowledge of the properties of operations. With their understanding of...
Passing the Common Core: 7th grade
The Basics: In math, students develop an understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, graphs and equations to solve real-world problems of proportional relationships. Students also work on solving multi-step...
Passing the Common Core: 6th grade
The basics: In math, students learn the concept of rates and ratios and use these tools to solve word problems. Students work on dividing multi-digit whole numbers and adding, subtracting,...
Passing the Common Core: 5th grade
The Basics: In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Students add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand their geometry...
Passing the Common Core: 4th grade
The Basics: In math, children use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve word problems. They tackle measurement of volume, mass and time. They learn more about fractions — creating...
Passing the Common Core: 3rd grade
The Basics: In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solving skills and strategies for multiplying and dividing...
Passing the Common Core: 2nd grade
The Basics: In math, students extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds place. They use this to solve word problems, such as those involving length and other units...
Passing the Common Core: 1st grade
The Basics: In math, students work with whole numbers and place value. They group numbers into 10s and 1s, and learn to add and subtract up through 20. They use...
Passing the Common Core: Kindergarten
The Basics: In math, kindergartners focus on learning numbers and what numbers represent, then learn about addition and subtraction. Students also identify and work with shapes. In English, students learn...
What's new for the Common Core in 2016
With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year...
Al Sharpton supports Common Core testing in schools
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he is squarely behind Common Core testing — and against the opt-out movement — as he urged schoolkids Saturday to take the state’s standardized tests...
Anti-Common Core activists seek control of teachers union
As the Cuomo administration tiptoes back from its testing mandates for Grades 3 to 8, opt-out activists are trying to wrest control of the United Federation of Teachers and the...
School still in turmoil months after principal's suicide, parents say
Parents at a Harlem school where the principal killed herself after allegedly cheating on Common Core exams have sent an angry letter to Chancellor Carmen Fariña complaining that their children’s...
UFT spends $1M thanking Cuomo for Common Core backtrack
The city teachers union is spending $1.4 million on TV ads to thank Gov. Cuomo for retreating from plans to use student Common Core test results to evaluate teachers. The...