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Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction
Reflections on gifted education from the Olympics, part 2: What we can contribute
Throughout the recent Olympic Games, I reflected on the parallels between elite-level athletics and gifted education, and I thought how much we could learn about developing exceptional ability from what we saw during those two weeks.
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Curriculum & Instruction
National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from Washington
Are National Board Certified Teachers more effective than their non-certified counterparts?
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Curriculum & Instruction, Accountability & Testing
The promise of mastery grading (continued)
Pros and cons of mastery-based education
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Curriculum & Instruction, Accountability & Testing
When the stakes get high, the politics shouldn’t get soft
An argument against watering down testing and accountability
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Curriculum & Instruction
Differentiated instruction vs. ability grouping: It’s time to toss out “one or the other” thinking
How about a hybrid?
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Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction
Getting classroom observations right
A new Education Next study has implications for Ohio's OTES teacher evaluation protocols.
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Accountability & Testing, Standards, Curriculum & Instruction
Spending More of the School Day in Math Class: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity in Middle School
We take a look at the evidence for and against "double dosing" in middle school math.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Visual Environment, Attention Allocation, and Learning
A brief look at a study on visual clutter in the learning environment.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Academic Content, Student Learning, and the Persistence of Preschool Effects
“Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”: this clichéd adage, often found on motivational posters, actually has something worthwhile to say. Sometimes where we set goals determines where we end up, even if the goal is seldom met.
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Curriculum & Instruction
PISA and Occam’s Razor
Occam’s Razor is the well-known principle that “among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Keep that in mind as various pundits hypothesize about why the U.S.
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Curriculum & Instruction
The Algebra Imperative: Assessing Algebra in a National and International Context
This valuable paper from the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings sounds an important alarm: “The danger is that grade inflation, the often discussed phenomenon of students receiving higher and higher grades for mediocre academic achievement, has been joined by course inflation.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Testimony to the Michigan House Education Subcommittee on Common Core Standards
Prepared for Delivery on August 28, 2013
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Implementation, Implementation, Assessment, Assessment
Despite the tireless marriage-wrecking efforts of Common Core opponents and their acolytes and funders, few states that initially pledged their troth to these rigorous new standards for English and math are in divorce mode.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cliffs ahead: Test scores and the Common Core
New York made education headlines last week, as its public schools reported substantially lower test scores than in previous years. The cause of the drop?
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Cincinnati, the model public school district?
A glimpse of the latest Ohio education headlines
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Curriculum & Instruction
Year 3 of Implementing the Common Core State Standards: An Overview of States’ Programs and Challenges
The Center for Education Policy recently released a three-part series of reports reviewing the Common Core State standards implementation with focuses on the federal role, state progress and challenges, and teacher preparation, training, and assessments for the new standards.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
We can all have flying cars: Why yearning for the good old days is a waste of time when it comes to education
The collective “we” in education is currently in tatters.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Common Ground: Judy Hennessey
Dr. Judy Hennessey, superintendent of Deca Prep, a K-6 elementary school, discusses Common Core.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Short Review: High Quality Professional Development for Teachers
As states and schools get ready for Common Core implementation, they had better prepare for higher quality education for both students and teachers.
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
Keeping our standards up
The Washington Post profiled Josh Powell, a homeschooled young man, who—having never written an essay or learned that South Africa was a country—had to take several years of rem
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Curriculum & Instruction
Hijacking Ohio’s future: State legislators must reject House Bill 237
Ohio’s legislators must reject House Bill 237, which seeks to void the State Board of Education’s decision to adopt the Common Core academic standards in English language arts and math.
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Curriculum & Instruction
Early College, Early Success: Early College High School Initiative Impact Study
The power of high expectations
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Curriculum & Instruction
Skewering a widely circulated Common Core myth
There are scads of misinformation being tossed about when it comes to the Common Core Academic Standards.
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Curriculum & Instruction
How best to integrate content and practices in science
The NGSS gave undue prominence to scientific skills and practices, ultimately underemphasizing content knowledge
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Charter Schools, Curriculum & Instruction
From local diplomas to zombie attacks
New York City’s graduation rate dipped very slightly in 2012—information that was