The Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), announced in 2009 by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), is a voluntary effort including 48 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands joining together to create common core standards for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics. As part of CCSSI, the NGA center and CCSSO selected a validation committee to review the standards and the process by which the standards were developed. The Common Core State Standards Validation Committee made these statements in its June 2010 report:
“The ultimate goal is for all American children to graduate from high school ready for college, career pathways, and success in a global economy.”
“The Common Core State Standards represent what American students need to know and do to be successful in college and careers.”
“These common standards are an important step in bringing about a real and meaningful transformation of the education system for the benefit of all students.”
The Common Core State Standards were officially released on June 2, 2010. The ELA and mathematics standards have the goals of providing more clarity and consistency to the expectations placed on student learning across the country. The mission statement for the Common Core State Standards describes standards as “designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.”
Renaissance Learning has more than two decades of experience developing K12 practice and assessment content for reading, language arts, English language acquisition, and mathematics. In addition, Renaissance Learning has more than ten years of experience researching and analyzing state and national standards and aligning practice and assessment content, textbooks, and curriculum guides to state and national standards. Renaissance Learning has completed organizational summaries of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, and is moving quickly to align all products to the Common Core State Standards:
Accelerated Reader™ — Accelerated Reader is a concrete way to help students meet the Common Core State Standards. By guiding students to appropriate books, incorporating daily reading practice into the school day, setting individualized reading practice goals, and monitoring progress toward those goals in AR, students will succeed and grow. Accelerated Reader's instant reporting helps teachers monitor progress and quickly identify students who may need assistance, and Renaissance Home Connect keeps parents informed so they can easily support their children's reading practice at home. Click here to learn how Accelerated Reader can support your efforts to implement the Common Core State Standards and ensure that all your students are prepared for college and career.
STAR Enterprise™ – Because our content development plans are well in place, we anticipate that our current assessment system will be among the first web-based systems aligned to the Common Core State Standards. With this system, states and districts that want to move quickly to measure students according to these new standards with a quality online assessment will be able to do so without delay.
Accelerated Math™ – The Accelerated Math Second-Edition Libraries are based on extensive research and expert review. There is a strong correlation between the goals outlined in the CCSSI and those targeted during the recent development of the new Accelerated Math scope and sequence. Click here to learn more about how Accelerated Math objectives provide a firm foundation for practicing and assessing skills outlined in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Click here to view the standards report.
Successful Reader™ – Successful Reader and the Common Core State Standards share a focus on the most significant issues in reading: the development of thoughtful, strategic readers. Successful Reader takes a new, targeted approach to helping educators intervene earlier with struggling readers. Focused explicitly on the skills proven by research to most impact reading achievement, this reading intervention program for students in grades 4–12 is designed specifically to help struggling readers become successful readers. Successful Reader helps struggling readers strengthen their motivation to read, build their self-confidence, and increase their overall reading ability. With its unique Instructional Book Club design, Successful Reader incorporates professionally narrated audiobooks, key skills instruction and application based on authentic literature, structured book discussions, informal writing, and guided independent reading practice. Click here to learn how Successful Reader can support your efforts to implement the Common Core State Standards and ensure that your students develop into confident, able readers.
As states make adoption decisions concerning the Common Core State Standards, Renaissance Learning will continue to update State Standards Alignments to all products.
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