Literacy and the Common Core: Reflecting on the Research 
When: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, 2 p.m. ET 
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The Common Core State Standards crystallize new ways of looking at how students read in the digital age. The standards draw on research about the different ways students read narrative and informational text, different types of writing in different disciplines, and the importance of working with texts of varied complexity and difficulty.

However, the common core deliberately leaves out specific instructional strategies to help students meet those standards, and researchers say they will have to hustle to develop best practices for teachers. Our guests—one a researcher on the committee that helped develop the literacy standards, the other leading a group to help teachers implement them—will talk about the research behind the standards, and how to make sense of the changing literacy landscape.

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Presenters: 
Timothy Shanahan, director of the Center for Literacy and chairman of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Maureen McLaughlin, president-elect of the International Reading Association and chairperson of the Reading Department at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

This chat will be moderated by Sarah D. Sparks, staff writer, Education Week.