New Spotlights From Education Week: Implementing Common Standards

Education Week Spotlights contain essential news and commentary on the big issues. These Spotlights provide the information you need to understand the most talked-about topics.

For a limited time, download these common-core Spotlights FREE:

	Implementing Common Standards: Examine efforts to align textbooks to the common-core standards, learn about principal training efforts, and discover ways to reduce costs associated with common-core implementation.
	Literacy and the Common Core: Learn how schools are meeting the English/language arts standards by incorporating literacy skills across the curriculum, emphasizing nonfiction texts, and collaborating with librarians.
	Supporting Instruction in the Common Core: See how schools are getting ready for the common standards by using virtual professional development, forming educator cadres to prepare for assessments, and building capacity for new instructional approaches.

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Dropout Prevention: Take a closer look at schools using early-dropout detection and online credit-recovery, and explore how early-college models are impacting student dropout rates.

Digital Literacy in the Common-Core Era: Examine public-private efforts to close the digital skills gap and learn how to incorporate digital literacy into the common-core.

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