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, andCollege and Career Readiness * The Role of Elementary andSecondary Schools * Overview of the Chapters * UsingThis Book to Support Implementation of the Common Core State Standards 1 The New Challenge: All Students College and Career Ready19 Why College and Career Readiness for All? * From VocationalEducation 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 StudentInterests and Goals to College and Career Readiness * Levelsof Readiness * My Definition of College and CareerReady 3 The Four Keys to College and Career Readiness 53 The Four Keys: An Overview * Key Cognitive Strategies inDepth * Key Content Knowledge in Depth 4 The Four Keys Continued: Learning Skills and Transition Skills71 Key Learning Skills and Techniques in Depth * Key TransitionKnowledge and Skills in Depth * The Complexity of College andCareer 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 ResearchFoundation for Deeper Learning 6 Deeper Learning at the Classroom Level 119 Characteristics of the Deeper Learning Classroom * Challengesof the Deeper Learning Classroom * A Closer Look at ScoringStudent Work for Deeper Learning * Deeper Learning, theCommon 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 theCommon Core State Standards * Structure and Organization ofthe English Language Arts and Mathematics Standards * TheHeart 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 CareerReadiness 169 The Reaching the Goal Study * Implementing the Common CoreState Standards to Improve College and Career Readiness * WhoOwns the Responsibility to Teach the Common Core State Standards?* Understanding Key Areas Related to College and CareerReadiness * 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 Readiness193 The Goals of the Consortia Assessments * Characteristics ofEach Consortium's Assessment * Preparing for theConsortia Assessments * The Challenge Remaining 10 From an Assessment System to a System of Assessments215 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 Linebetween High School and College * The Future of the CommonCore State Standards and Consortia Assessments * The OverallOutlook Conclusion: Changing Demographics, New Instructional Challenges263 Appendix: A Nine-Part Readiness System 267 Index 287