Special Report on Diverse Learners and the Common Core

How well educators manage to adjust the Common Core to the needs of each student could prove pivotal academically, but also politically, as the standards themselves face skepticism in the states.

This special report looks at the challenges educators face in adapting the standards for students with disabilities, English-learners, and gifted students. The special report “Moving Beyond the Mainstream: Helping Diverse Learners Master the Common Core” deals with these topics and more.

FEATURED IN THIS SPECIAL REPORT:

A Common-Core Challenge: Learners With Special Needs

For students with special needs, English-learners, gifted students, and others beyond the mainstream, educators have to work harder to make new standards fit.

ESL and Classroom Teachers Team Up to Teach Common Core

In some schools, the new standards are leading to a closer collaboration between content-area teachers and those who serve students with special needs.

Common Core Ratchets Up Language Demands for English-Learners

The Common Core State Standards’ focus on persuasion, analysis, and other discourse skills is accelerating the push to teach English-language learners to master ‘academic’ English.

‘Read-Aloud’ Assistance Puts Test-Makers on Spot

The option is controversial amid a clash of philosophies; what some see as a useful tool others decry as a crutch.

Common Core’s Promise Collides With IEP Realities

Special education teachers struggle with how to make sure that individualized education programs for students with disabilities align with the common standards.

Read the entire report, free, during the Education Week open house. See http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/standards-report-diverse-2013/index.html