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Download full textHaydel, Elizabeth; Carmichael, Sheila Byrd – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2015
The need for standards-aligned curricula is the most cited Common Core challenge for states, districts, and schools. Yet five years into that implementation, teachers still report scrambling to find high-quality instructional materials. Despite publishers' claims, there is a dearth of programs that are truly aligned to the demands of the Common…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Instruction, Common Core State Standards, State Programs
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 2002
Recent reports of high levels of achievement on the Regents examinations in New York state and relatively poor showing on the eighth grade examinations have led many to speculate that the eighth grade examinations lack good predictive properties with respect to the Regents examinations. There are many problems with arriving at such a conclusion,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Construct Validity, English, Language Arts
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 2001
The consequences of large state testing are often uniformity of expectations for achievement. The largest impact of higher standards, then, are realized by traditionally disenfranchised student populations, particularly the least affluent who are most likely to bear the yoke of low expectation. This paper advances S. Messick's (1981) fundamental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLawrence, Salika A. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2007
Literacy assessments are transforming the contexts of secondary instruction. This article reports how literacy assessments are shaping the instructional choices of nine English Language Arts teachers who work in three different states in northeastern United States--New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Through interviews, the teachers reported…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Test Preparation, State Programs, Literacy
McGill-Franzen, Anne; Ward, Naomi – 1997
This paper presents the results of a document and interview analysis focusing on the standards and frameworks materials that have been newly developed for teachers and administrators in New York to determine the fit between these guidelines and the developing sociocultural concept of curriculum as "conversation" within the domains of…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
State Univ. of New York, Albany. New York African American Inst. – 1988
This study found that syllabuses and instructional supplements issued by New York State lacked the amount and kind of information essential for optimal education of African American and other minority group students in inner city schools and have a "chilling effect" on teacher initiative and creativity. The following types of documents…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Studies, Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation
