- Achieve.org – . Achieve works alongside states to raise graduation requirements and overall academic standards and was integral in the development of the Common Core State Standards. The following resources can be used to educate and inform your United Way, an OST coalition, families in your local community, and business leaders about the truth behind Common Core.
- Achieve.org – K-2 Grade Guide – . What Every K-2 Parent Needs to Know about the Common Core
- Achieve.org – 3-5 Grade Guide – . What Every Grade 3-5 Parent Needs to Know about the Common Core
- Achieve.org – 6-8 Grade Guide – . What Every Grade 6-8 Parent Needs to Know about the Common Core
- Achieve.org – 9-12 Grade Guide – . What Every Grade 9-12 Parent Needs to Know about the Common Core
- Achieve.org – English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Fact Sheet – . Understanding the K-12 Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
- Achieve.org – Mathematics Fact Sheet – . Understanding the K-12 Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
- Afterschool and the Common Core State Standards: 2-Page Brief – Afterschool Alliance, January 2014. 2014 marks the 12th anniversary of No Child Left Behind - are students any more prepared to be successful college students, workers and citizens than they were 12 year ago?
- Afterschool and the Common Core State Standards: Full Text – Afterschool Alliance, January 2014. 2014 marks the 12th anniversary of No Child Left Behind - are students any more prepared to be successful college students, workers and citizens than they were 12 year ago?
- Aligning With the School Day: Action Tips for Alignment Around the Core Elements – You for Youth. Practitioner tips that suggest what it might look like in an out-of-school program that has achieved a high level of alignment with the school(s) its students attend.
- Building Mastery of the Common Core State Standards by Expanded Learning with Community Stakeholder Partnerships – An excerpt from the book Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success, 2012. A collection of research studies, reports, essays and commentaries that show quality afterschool and summer learning programs - including 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), make a positive difference for students, families, schools, and communities.
- Business Center for a College- and Career-Ready America – Achieve. A toolkit that helps business leaders think more strategically about how best to support college and career readiness for all students.
- Common Core State Standards – Change the Equation. This two-page brief explains the key aspects of the Common Core State Standards and the implications of the standards for the community.
- Common Core State Standards Website – Common Core State Standards Initiative. This site explains the standards and gives a background on how and why they were created. Additionally, it shares resources for parents to better understand what the standards include and what impact they will have on children.
- Connecting High-Quality Expanded Learning Opportunities and The Common Core State Standards to Advance Student Success – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011. This brief examines the benefit of strengthening the connection between the Common Core and expanded learning opportunities so that both efforts achieve maximum success.
- GAIC Afterschool Quality Standards – Georgia Afterschool Investment Council, 2011. This report explores how the Georgia Afterschool Investment Council aligned their Afterschool Quality Standards with the Common Core State Standards.
- Getting a Head Start on the Common Core – Partnership for Children & Youth, 2013. How education leaders can use summer programs to stop summer learning loss, and build student and staff capacity to succeed in the new Common Core environment.
- How Global Afterschool Programs Can Support Common Core State Standards – Asia Society, 2015. This article focuses on the overlap between the goals of promoting global competence and working within the Common Core framework.
- Lesson Plans Hub – FormSwift. These Common Core-aligned lesson plans are designed to help teachers and educational professionals adapt quickly to The Common Core State Standards. These three lesson plan templates, educators can create and fill out a lesson plan with a professional design for their math, science and language arts courses, and download them in PDF or MS Word format with a single click.
- Linking Common Core and Expanding Learning – Partnership for Children and Youth, 2013. This report describes ways in which and provides examples of how expanded learning programs can integrate programmatic elements to better align with Common Core standards.
- National Geographic and the Common Core – . The National Geographic Society offers K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards.
- Redesigning and Expanding School Time to Support Common Core Implementation – Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning, January 2014. This report covers the importance of continual professional development and collaboration, the necessity of providing students with ample time to meet math and English language arts requirements, and suggestions to improve the effectiveness of Common Core, including how to develop effective extended learning programs.
- The Common Core Standards: What Do They Mean for Out-of-School Time? – Forum for Youth Investment, July 2012. Policy commentary, highlighting specific responses of some out-of-school programs to the Common Core standards.
- TNReady – Tennessee Dept. of Education. TCAP has been the state's testing program since 1988, and it includes TNReady, the state's assessments in math, English language arts, social studies, and science. The assessments now include rigorous questions that measure students' writing, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
- Top 10 Highlights of 2017 – Classroom Chronicles, December 20, 2017.. Tennessee schools saw incredible achievements from students and educators in 2017. In this blog post, Tennessee Commissioner of Education Candice McQueen highlights some of the top successes of the year.