Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
Matriculating is not enough
Matriculating is not enough
This paper uses systems thinking to provide common sense ideas for saving money while improving special education services to the more than 275,000 Ohio students with special needs.
No accountability system is perfect, but we can all agree that one that gets it wrong as often as it gets it right is in need of serious reform. But is there any proof that is happening?
Race, school discipline, and curriculum
Welcome to the Battle of Just-Right Texts
An empiricist votes “yes” on tracking
Anthony Kim of Education Elements comes to Ohio
Instead of a helpful resource, their new book simply defends existing--and poorly aligned--curricular material.
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
Will the few critical but passing phrases that link the Common Core ELA standards to a content-rich curriculum be enough to drive instructional changes our students so desperately need?
The power of the humanities
Text complexity is the new black
The guidance that’s starting to emerge about how teachers can best select “grade-appropriate” texts may actually end up undermining the Common Core’s emphasis on improving the quality and rigor of the texts students are reading.
The autonomy agenda matters
Guest blogger Paul Gross addresses the enduring (and false) belief that scientific reasoning is separable from the content of science.
In the end, the “just right” theory of reading instruction is focused on the right goal—having students read independently and with deep understanding. But the way it tries to get there may be exactly what is holding our students back from achieving at the levels they need.
Philosophical gravitas from an unexpected source.
The Common Core is common sense
The Common Core ELA standards are right to takes on one of the most prominent and often fiercely defended fallacies in American education: that fiction is the only—or perhaps even the best—way to develop students’ love of reading, learning, and critical comprehension skills.
Yes, let’s find ways to drive better discussions in the classroom. But let’s also recognize that what makes those discussions work in America’s elite private schools is that they are built atop of solid foundation of rigorous content and hours and hours of practice.
Ohio educators talk about the promise and challenges of implementing the Common Core.
Here’s hoping “next generation” also means “better”
The report, Future Shock: Early Common Core Lessons from Ohio Implementers, will be released next week, but some of Belcher’s findings are worth reporting early because this is such a burning issue for schools and educators across the state.
There is a saying among high performing schools that there is no 100 percent solution to helping students learn. Instead, there are a hundred 1 percent solutions that add up to big results. The same is true in the world of education policy.
The what and who, but not the how (much)
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