This collection of resources includes articles and research on key topics related to the Common Core standards.
 

Assessment

• Common Formative Assessments: An Overview
• Formative and Summative Assessments in the Classroom
• Five "Key Strategies" for Effective Formative Assessment
• Inside the Black Box
• Working Inside the Black Box: Assessment for Learning in the Classroom
• What a Difference a Word Makes: Assessment for Learning Rather than Assessment of Learning Helps Students Succeed
• Performance Assessment: What, Why and How?
• The Case for Authentic Assessment
• SCALE Performance Assessment Glossary and Performance Assessment Design Principles

College and Career Readiness

• ACT College and Career Readiness Summary
• What is College and Career Ready?
• Common Standards: The Time is Now
• Higher Standards for All: Implications of the Common Core for Equity in Education
• College Readiness is Key Focus This Year

Literacy

• A Discussion of "Increasing Text Complexity"
• Adolescent Literacy Fact Sheet
• Supporting Adolescent Literacy Achievement
• Adolescent Literacy and the Achievement Gap: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go From Here?
• Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content-Area Literacy
• Active Literacy Across the Curriculum