Curriculum & Instruction

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Report
6.23.2016
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey

Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Ann Duffett, David Griffith, Ph.D.

In Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey, Jennifer Bay Williams, Ann Duffett, and David Griffith take a close look at how educators are implementing the Common Core math standards in classrooms across the nation.

Commentary
5.10.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

Knowledge needs champions

Harriet Tubman will grace the front of our $20 bill—a long-overdue tribute to a woman who lived up to the best of American values. But do most Americans know who she was?

Commentary
4.13.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

Using online courses for credit recovery

Robert Pondiscio

Credit recovery is education’s Faustian pact. We remain not very good at raising most students to respectable standards. But neither can we refuse to graduate boxcar numbers of kids who don’t measure up.

Commentary
4.5.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

"Culturally relevant pedagogy" limits minority students

It should be great news: Graduation rates for Minnesota’s black and Hispanic students—which have long lagged the rate for white students—are on the rise.But how much do these new graduates actually know? What skills have they mastered? In other words, what is their high school diploma really worth?

Commentary
2.24.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

Elementary-grade reading in Tennessee

Robert Pondiscio

Over the past decade, Tennessee has seen steady growth in math, science, and social studies scores. Those gains have been accompanied, as in many states, by rising high school graduation rates. But all is not well in the Volunteer State.

Commentary
2.24.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

Advocating for high-achievers

Brandon L. Wright

Thanks to No Child Left Behind and its antecedents, American education has focused in recent decades on ensuring that all children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds, attain a minimum level of academic achievement.

Commentary
1.20.2016
Curriculum & Instruction

NAEP computer-based writing pilot assessment: Fourth-grade performance

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.

A new study from the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences provides results for fourth-grade students on the 2012 NAEP pilot computer-based writing assessment. The study asks whether fourth graders can fully demonstrate their writing ability on a computer and what factors are related to their writing performance on said computers.