The Integration of Common Core and Response to Intervention: Supporting Vulnerable Readers in a Time of Sophisticated Standards

Elizabeth L. Jaeger, P. David Pearson

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Abstract

The Common Core State Standards and Response to Intervention are significant contemporary educational initiatives that have emerged largely in isolation from one another. We argue that an integration of these initiatives is beneficial. We trace the independent development of these two initiatives and offer suggestions for how they might fruitfully transact, fully supporting vulnerable readers in their efforts to master sophisticated standards. Results from a school implementing these initiatives as an integrated whole are discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)92-107
Number of pages16
JournalEducational Forum
Volume81
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2 2017

Keywords

  • Common Core State Standards
  • Response to Intervention
  • educational policy
  • language arts
  • political aspects/governmental influence
  • reading/emerging literacy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education

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