kitchen table math, the sequel

From an earlier comment by Myrtle on "Slave Parents in Singapore" regarding scoring in Singapore: 1: 75% and above 2: 70% to 74% 3...

ester left this link - incredible The one real regret I have in life is that I never learned to ride. I was a horse crazy little girl grow...

I think Instructivist left this link the other day. Then Temple told me about it yesterday.

Here's the Financial Times blog entry .

Just stumbled across a classic Engelmann diatribe on the Writing Process left by an Anonymous commenter awhile back: I spend most of my tim...

wow C. came home from school today saying his math test was "easy." I'm trying to think whether I've ever heard him say su...

from Why Johnny Can't Write: How to Improve Writing Skills by Myra J. Linden and Arthur Whimbey: Student C: Paragraph Written Before TR...

Went back a year and a half to find this post from January 2006 (no idea whether this is true, but here it is): Carolyn mentioned the subjec...

Cassy T , who teaches Singapore Math to 3rd graders in a charter school, sent this email awhile back and gave me permission to post: It was ...

This is a state-sponsored ed program in a frigging college town, and I'm somehow the only writing teacher they have. So they've deci...

Governor To Bet Billions on SUNY reports The New York Sun . Envisioning a dramatically greater role for universities and colleges in the re...

good heavens Speaking of Advanced and Proficient and whatnot, remember this ? (pdf file) Placement Test for Singapore Primary Mathematics 6A...

The post on " basic for high school seniors " is wrong -- thanks to Mark R . for catching this. (fyi: There's a special trick ...

Check out this great free worksheet resource for math drills: http://www.math-drills.com (Sorry, it's my first post...can't figure o...

Jefferson Davis Learning Center developmental math algebra worksheets Fantastic resource. Word problems are great; come with ready-made char...

update - wrong, wrong, wrong I'm sorry..... this is completely wrong. I didn't hit the "Submit" button , so the page staye...

All students: Below Basic: 37.2 Basic: 48.2 Proficient: 13.0 Advanced: 1.6 Students with high-SES (highest income quartile): Thirty percent ...

from Fordham's new report " The Proficiency Illusion ": Eighth-grade tests are sharply harder to pass in most states than thos...

There's a new kind of Sudoku called Killer Sudoku that requires knowing addition facts. Google at your own risk. You have been warned.

I've been out practicing some amateur data mining. Fun! Fordham has a write-up of the new NAEP report . (pdf file) Mike Petrilli talks...