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Curriculum & Instruction
“The Writing Revolution” may just be a reading revolution (with thanks to E.D. Hirsch)
The "maestro of curricular content" weighs in on the startling success of a writing program
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Curriculum & Instruction
Third-grade reading guarantee: Is money the answer?
The state board considers $105 million in spending on the third-grade reading guarantee.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Show ponies and workhorses
While the education show goes on in Chicago, Ohio's workhorses plow ahead
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Curriculum & Instruction
Here's one of the great things Portland Public Schools is focusing on instead of the Three R's
Peanut-butter sandwiches, drum circles, and where education took a wrong turn
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Curriculum & Instruction
Is Retaining Students in Early Grades Self-Defeating?
The pros and cons of state policies that require retention of third-grade students
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Curriculum & Instruction
Big Data for Education: Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Web Dashboards
An IBM-style question to schools: what are you doing to utilize data to improve performance?
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Curriculum & Instruction
The best education for the best is the best education for all
The case for a solid liberal arts education beyond high schools
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Xerox effect: Why replication in education falls short
A look at Paul Bambrick-Santoyo's new book, "Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools"
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Curriculum & Instruction
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
Matriculating is not enough
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Report
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Teachers & School Leaders
Applying Systems Thinking to Improve Special Education in Ohio
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Is everything you’ve heard about failing schools wrong?
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?
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Curriculum & Instruction
The discipline dilemma: Why black kids draw the short straw on suspensions
Race, school discipline, and curriculum
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Curriculum & Instruction
Common Core opens a second front in the Reading Wars
Welcome to the Battle of Just-Right Texts
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Unintended Consequence of an Algebra-for-All Policy on High-Skill Students: The Effects on Instructional Organization and Students’ Academic Outcomes
An empiricist votes “yes” on tracking
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Curriculum & Instruction
Blended learning: innovating the teaching process
Anthony Kim of Education Elements comes to Ohio
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Curriculum & Instruction
Misdirection and self-interest: How Heinemann and Lucy Calkins are rewriting the Common Core
Instead of a helpful resource, their new book simply defends existing--and poorly aligned--curricular material.
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Advanced Education
Education takes off: Rocketships and high flyers abound
Aggressive marketing campaigns have led to an
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Curriculum & Instruction
Assignment desk: CCSS Math curriculum rankings
The golden opportunity provided by the “K-8 Publishers Criteria for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.”
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Curriculum & Instruction
Twenty-first-century skills, part II: What would Ben Franklin say?
Who better to speak to contemporary American youth than one of the nation’s most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core revive content-driven instruction?
If it happens, thank E.D. Hirsch
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Curriculum & Instruction
Will Common Core usher in a return to content-driven instruction?
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?
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Curriculum & Instruction
Twenty-first century skills and poverty: Try Thucydides, Socrates, and Kant
The power of the humanities
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Curriculum & Instruction
Does the Common Core overcomplicate text selection?
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.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How top-down policies undermine instruction and feed the testing and accountability backlash
The autonomy agenda matters
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Curriculum & Instruction
Three persistent myths about science education
Guest blogger Paul Gross addresses the enduring (and false) belief that scientific reasoning is separable from the content of science.
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Curriculum & Instruction
"Just right" books revisited: 3 ways we undermine student learning
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.