In his book ‘I Got Schooled’ filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan draws an analogy between education reform and ideas in health care. Basically, good health depends on implementing several changes in...
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It’s an exciting and challenging time to be an adult in the world of K12 education. Everyone, including the 50 Chief State School Officers, staff at every SEA and LEA, classroom teachers,...
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Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt somehow
Ahh, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
Bob Dylan - My Back Pages Lyrics | MetroLyrics
States and districts...
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Many school districts across the country use our interim assessment MAP®, or Measures of Academic Progress® and MPG®, or MAP for Primary Grades. We’ve aligned them to work with the Common Core...
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When I worked with a diverse student population I was fortunate to learn SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) strategies. Designed to support English language learners, these strategies...
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Rigorous, inspiring, exciting, and challenging are all accurate descriptions of the Common Core State Standards. And regardless of your viewpoint they provide a framework for 21st century education...
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They say politics makes for strange bedfellows. It seems the Common Core State Standards do as well. The initiative was led by a coalition of the nation’s governors and education commissioners,...
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The implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has focused the conversation on the standards in a different way and brought in more classroom teacher voices. One of the main...
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Barbara Blackburn, on her website, has a great definition of "rigor" that I think most educators can get behind, and that I certainly appreciate:
Rigor is creating an environment in which each...
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Recently in the New York Times, Stanley Fish wrote a piece titled The Two Cultures of Educational Reform. Though his essay was focused on higher education, his thoughts and those of Derek Bok and...
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Massachusetts today has some of the best test scores in the country. When Massachusetts is considered by itself in PISA and TIMMS comparisons, the results in math, science and reading are on par...
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