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Ze'ev Wurman on newly released draft of Common Core math standards
3.11.10 - My initial take of the math standards is that too many pieces are still missing from it to make it a solid prep for Algebra 1 in 9th grade. See below for my somewhat more detailed & structured observations.
I Love Mr. Tony
3.8.10 - Anthony Melillo - After working for most of my life in the computer field, and being downsized like so many others, I found myself working part time at a church and was asked to fill in for a teacher at the end of the year. ...
RttT = Current Reality Bites
3.4.10 - Danaher M. Dempsey, Jr. - On May 20, 2009 Martha McLaren and I announced to the Seattle School Board in public testimony that we were dissatisfied with the results of their misuse of information and the damaging consequences for Seattle’s children. We said that the Board’s adoption of Key ...
Valuing America’s Workforce
3.4.10 - Tom Sticht - Two reports of multi-year research projects, separated by a decade and a half, one using statistical analysis and the other interview and observation methods, produce similar conclusions. Both call for a greater respect for the work that people...
Beyond pie charts: Are your school district’s checks online?
3.3.10 - Peyton Wolcott - What better way to introduce National Sunshine Week than with good news about the sunny status of America's public school financial transparency....
S. Korean Teachers Reach for the SKY
3.2.10 - Bill Costello - Beyond tradition, South Korea actively raises the status of teaching as a profession by doing two things. First, it makes entry to teacher training very selective. Teachers are recruited from the top 5 percent of each high school graduate class. Second, teachers are paid generous starting salaries...
Math League a big plus for students and the state
2.27.10 - Joe Nathan - Like a coach describing a terrific ski run, Eastview High School Math League coach Mike Haugh “nailed it’ when he wrote recently that Minnesota’s High School Math League helps students learn to think....
Commentary: Acknowledging a Rung in the Ladder
2.27.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Recently, Tom Watkins posted his thoughts and views on community colleges and indicated that they should get a lot more respect. I concur. I am proud to say that I did go to a community college and that the quality of education that I received there was impressive....
An Interview with Miriam Freedman: Fixing Special Education-12 Steps to Transform a Broken System
3.2.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Probably not, but my little flipbook doesn’t focus on those students. It focuses on the 70-80% of students who have mild to moderate disabilities. Even there, most people have little idea about the many services schools provide these days...
An Interview with Will Fitzhugh: The Concord Review, and Excellence in Research and Writing
2.27 10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Academic writing, as in student book reports and research papers, is not easy to do at any age, but in some ways it gets harder the longer schools put off having students learn how to do it....
Toward Global Poetry and Fiction: The Healing Role of Standard Worldwide American Pronunciation English
2.24. 10 - Robert Oliphant - If our battle against global warming requires global communication and consensus, we should welcome the spread of “standard worldwide American pronunciation English” (call it SWAPE or Ameriphonics for short...
Move Our Money From Banks to Students
2.23.10- Arne Duncan - President Obama has a plan to move our money from banks to students to make college more affordable for the next generation of engineers, teachers, and scientists....
Crisis in American Public Education
2.23.20 - Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. - American schools are in serious trouble. Liberals, intellectual elitists, and teachers’ unions strongly resist any change from this dinosaur system to a free market driven system. - ...
The Fall of America’s Universities
2.22.10 - Bill Costello - Since 2004, the world’s top 200 universities have been ranked annually by the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. Recently, the U.S. has been losing representation on the list while Asia has been gaining....
Business tycoon, Dr Johann Rupert, invests in global education and development
2.21.10 - Distinguished global business leader and entrepreneur, Dr Johann Rupert, has been appointed as the fourteenth Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), pledging his support to changing the nature of education and leading the African continent in an ambitious project to overcome global challenges. ...
Workforce Development: Ways to Make Instruction for Adult Learners More Efficient
2.19.10 - Tom Sticht - One of the problems in adult basic skills (literacy, numeracy, English language)education is the need to get adults out of basic skills education and into work, vocational, or academic coursework as rapidly as possible....
Do educators really want involved parents?
2.18.10 - Joe Nathan - A meeting last week reminded me: Rhetoric and reality sometimes depart when it comes to parent involvement in education. Some educators want parents to volunteer, help with their children and contribute money....
RTTT, national standards dangerous; administrators, lawmakers support them
2.15.20 - Laurie H. Rogers - Have you heard about the “Race to the Top” initiative? President Barack Obama and Sec. of Education Arne Duncan want the states to sign on to RTTT, which allows states to compete for one-time “grants”...
FIRING SILVER BULLETS OR BLANKS TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS?
2.12.10 - Marion Brady - Bill Gates says that big, impersonal schools are obstacles to improved learner performance. He's right....
Lost Generation? Not so fast.
2.18.10 - Josh Tetrick - We are "bright, eager, and unwanted," according to a recent Business Week cover story about the record high unemployment rate and career anxiety among our generation....- Congress must act soon to reauthorize D.C. scholarship program
- Falling Into the Ditch
- The Next Steps for Race to the Top
- Uniform standards are not a good fit
- Death And Life Of Great American Policy Fads
- How New York Could Lose by Winning
- The Lessons of Kumon
- Rick Hess Straight Up: Racing to the Jargon: Finalist's Edition
- WHO IS DEFENDING THE CHILDREN?
- If You Can't Beat 'Em So Why is the NEA and AFT trying to organize charter school teaching staffs?
An Interview with Glenn Scoggins: Teaching at an International School
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EducationNews.org British and Foreign Correspondent. For twenty-five years Colin Hannaford was a head of math - and latterly also head of ethics - at one of England's most prestigious international schools. Whilst there, he developed a new way of teaching math that is attracting increasing international respect and attention.
