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The common core of mediation

Mediation Quarterly, 1990
AbstractThere is widespread doubt over the advisability, and even the legitimacy, of mediators attempting to broaden their practice into areas in which they lack experience or specialized training. This article uses a previously published descriptive framework of mediation skill to offer the hypothesis that it is possible to provide a rule of thumb to ...
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Teaching the Common Core: Using the Common Core to Support Disciplinary Literacies

Voices from the Middle, 2015
Disciplinary literacy instruction holds potential for preparing young people to understand and take on pressing human problems. However, the emphasis on literacy and numeracy, as expressed in the Common Core State Standards, has the potential to undermine the disciplines by deemphasizing some disciplines or by not placing value on the texts central to ...
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Commentaries: Common Core, Rotten Core

Language Arts, 2014
Several readers respond to aspects of CCSS implementation, addressing topics from their sociopolitical context to teacher training to a comparison with Finnish testing practices. Also included are several poetic responses that are sure to evoke a smile or a shudder.
Patrick Shannon   +8 more
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Common Core

2016
Common Core is an instructive book that enhances classroom teacher knowledge-base of global and multicultural literature texts, which as a result, deepens student appreciation for cultures around the world. Through use of technology and multicultural literature, Dr.
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Common Core Standards

Educational Researcher, 2011
The Common Core standards released in 2010 for English language arts and mathematics have already been adopted by dozens of states. Just how much change do these new standards represent, and what is the nature of that change? In this article, the Common Core standards are compared with current state standards and assessments and with standards in top ...
Andrew Porter   +3 more
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Implementing the Common Core

Educational Policy, 2014
The purpose of this comparative case study was to explore the ways educators at the school level experience the Common Core Standards and examine the contextual factors that impacted the way it was initially implemented. Qualitative data were gathered through teacher surveys, faculty focus groups, and interviews with each school principal and the two ...
Rachel E. Porter   +2 more
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The Common Core Standards

2014
In 2009, the NGA hired the company Student Achievement to develop curriculum standards that are “robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers” (CCSSO, 2010, p. 1). These standards were designed to prepare students to compete successfully in the global market.
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Prelude to the Common Core

Educational Policy, 2012
As states struggle with the notion of international competitiveness, the quality and rigor of academic content standards has come into question. While Ohio’s content standards are well regarded, the state initiated a process to revise the standards and eventually joined with the majority of states in adopting a voluntary set of national standards—the ...
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The Common Core Standards

2015
In the first five chapters of this book, I have tried to make some sense of what might be meant by a “better adult” and how our schools might promote the development of that adult. On the basis of that exploration, I have made some general suggestions and a few definite recommendations.
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Design Core Commonalities

The Journal of General Education, 2015
ABSTRACT This comprehensive study asks what a group of rather diverse disciplines have in common. It involves a cross-disciplinary examination of an entire college, the College of Design at Iowa State University. This research was intended to provide a sense of direction in developing and assessing possible core content.
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