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[|Common Core Toolkit]. //Partnership for 21st Century Skills.// A guide to aligning Common Core State Standards with the Framework for 21st Century Skills. The framework focuses on student outcomes in 21 Century learning areas, including life and career skills, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, technology and information/media literacy. Covers core academic subjects. Gr. K-12

[|**Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum**]

I n this article, the Common Core standards are compared with current state standards and assessments and with standards in top-performing countries, as well as with reports from a sample of teachers from across the country describing their own practices.

[|**MESSAGING TOOLKIT: Common Core State Standards Initiative**] This site offers messaging materials that provide all of the information you will need to know about the standards and the strongest arguments in support of their adoption.

[|Learn360 Integrates Common Core Standards and 21st Century Skills with K-12 Educational Streaming Videos] Article explores the implementation of common core standards and linking them with video.

[|Gathering sheds light oneducational 'core curriculum'] Article explains how multiple states are implementing the common core standards and student transferring states will be able to transition more easily when moving states.

[|The Common Core Initiative: Dimensions of Implementation]

[|Providing a Smooth Transition to the Common Core State Standards]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt offers a number of consultative services and training to help schools build a strong foundation for teaching the new standards—and creating sustainable success in schools. This website provides several useful ideas and action plans

The Common Core State Standards and Teacher Preparation: The Role of Higher Education

Higher education plays multiple roles in ensuring the success of the Common Core State

Standards. In this brief, we lay out an action agenda for the role of higher education institutions

in this collective work. Four are noteworthy:

Aligning higher education curriculum with K–12 curriculum (which includes both adapting

admissions standards and revising curricula of first year courses that act as bridges between

K–12 and college majors).

Preparing and educating teachers, both prospective and practicing (which includes revising

curriculum in disciplinary departments to prepare teachers to teach the Common Core, revising

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">professional preparation coursework and experiences, and working in partnerships with

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">professional development programs).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conducting research on issues of teaching and learning the Common Core State Standards,

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teacher quality, and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

<span class="wiki_link_ext">[|**New-Generation Assessment of Common Core Standards:Moving toward Implementation**]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The paper takes up at greater length the challenges associated with the more fundamental goal of translating the Common Core Standards assessment activity into more intellectually ambitious instruction and deeper learning for students that supports genuine college and career readiness.

[|**The Common Core State Standards and Teacher Preparation: The Role of Higher Education**] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Higher education plays multiple roles in ensuring the success of the Common Core State <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Standards. In this brief, we lay out an action agenda for the role of higher education institutions <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in this collective work. Four are noteworthy: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aligning higher education curriculum with K–12 curriculum (which includes both adapting <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">admissions standards and revising curricula of first year courses that act as bridges between <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">K–12 and college majors). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Preparing and educating teachers, both prospective and practicing (which includes revising <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">curriculum in disciplinary departments to prepare teachers to teach the Common Core, revising <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">professional preparation coursework and experiences, and working in partnerships with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">professional development programs). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conducting research on issues of teaching and learning the Common Core State Standards, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teacher quality, and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.