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Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! This issue’s Reading Expert offers an in-depth look at how California’s recently adopted English Language Arts/English Language Framework helps translate Common Core standards to a coherent and sequenced curriculum for all students. The Marvelous Mathematician discusses how to facilitate meaningful discourse in the mathematics classroom with a list […]

Aligned with Common Core State Standards related to vocabulary and language, Word Intelligence provides teachers with all the tools they need to explicitly teach struggling students and English learners important academic words, specific content words tied to U.S. and world history, and efficient word-learning strategies to apply to new words as they are encountered. Many, […]

CORE’s CCSS Reading Foundational Skills Instructional DVD and New Multiple Measures Reporting Forms! Common Core State Standards Series: Foundation Skills for Teaching Reading is a three-video set aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and designed to provide educators with an understanding of the linguistic underpinnings of learning to read and two critical foundational […]

Don’t miss the latest CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! This issue’s Reading Expert features a journal article review covering research to help English learners meet the Common Core State Standards for literacy in science. The Marvelous Mathematician discusses how to go beyond good question-asking to engage students in math discourse. CORE’s new supplemental math resource, Spend Some […]

Welcome to the new CORE Academic Quarterly newsletter! CORE is proud to announce our new quarterly client newsletter, combining the CORE Reading Expert, the CORE Marvelous Mathematician and introducing our new Leadership Corner. In our inaugural issue, the Reading Expert introduces the first book in a series highlighting a synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses related to educational […]

Read CORE founder Linda Diamond’s Ed Week commentary on the Common Core A new disorder seems to have swept the nation: Common Core State Standards Syndrome. This malady is characterized by sharply polarized positions—worshiping the common core as schools’ salvation, or condemning it as on the path to Armageddon. The clinical manifestation is similar: op-eds in […]