Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

Preface xi Acknowledgments xix The Author xxi Introduction 1 The Common Core State Standards, Student Ownership of Learning, and College and Career Readiness * The Role of Elementary and Secondary Schools * Overview of the Chapters * Using This Book to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards 1 The New Challenge: All Students College and Career Ready 19 Why College and Career Readiness for All? * From Vocational Education to Career Technical Education * The Academic Core * Creating College Readiness and Career Readiness for All * The Rise of College Readiness Standards 2 College Readiness, Career Readiness: Same or Different? 37 Exploring Readiness More Deeply * Connecting Student Interests and Goals to College and Career Readiness * Levels of Readiness * My Definition of College and Career Ready 3 The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness 53 The Four Keys: An Overview * Key Cognitive Strategies in Depth * Key Content Knowledge in Depth 4 The Four Keys Continued: Learning Skills and Transition Skills 71 Key Learning Skills and Techniques in Depth * Key Transition Knowledge and Skills in Depth * The Complexity of College and Career Readiness 5 Toward Deeper Learning 99 Some Framing Characteristics of the Learning Process * Knowledge Complexity Progression * What Is Deeper Learning? * Four Models of Deeper Learning * Overview of Research Foundation for Deeper Learning 6 Deeper Learning at the Classroom Level 119 Characteristics of the Deeper Learning Classroom * Challenges of the Deeper Learning Classroom * A Closer Look at Scoring Student Work for Deeper Learning * Deeper Learning, the Common Core State Standards, and College and Career Readiness 7 A Closer Look at the Common Core State Standards 139 Where Did the Common Core Come From? * An Overview of the Common Core State Standards * Structure and Organization of the English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards * The Heart of the Challenge of Teaching the Common Core State Standards * What the Common Core State Standards Don't Do * Appendix: Key Elements of the Common Core 8 The Common Core State Standards and College and Career Readiness 169 The Reaching the Goal Study * Implementing the Common Core State Standards to Improve College and Career Readiness * Who Owns the Responsibility to Teach the Common Core State Standards? * Understanding Key Areas Related to College and Career Readiness * A Key Role for Elementary School Teachers * The Challenge of the Common Core and College and Career Ready 9 The Consortia Assessments and College and Career Readiness 193 The Goals of the Consortia Assessments * Characteristics of Each Consortium's Assessment * Preparing for the Consortia Assessments * The Challenge Remaining 10 From an Assessment System to a System of Assessments 215 Performance Tasks: Key Element in a System of Assessments * How a System of Assessments Addresses a Wider Range of Standards * Moving toward Student Profiles 11 Where To from Here? 235 What Will "Ready" Mean? * A Blurring of the Line between High School and College * The Future of the Common Core State Standards and Consortia Assessments * The Overall Outlook Conclusion: Changing Demographics, New Instructional Challenges 263 Appendix: A Nine-Part Readiness System 267 Index 287