kitchen table math, the sequel

Here! For all the talking points that Reform Math proponents deploy in response to the general criticisms, I haven't yet seen any talkin...

off-topic I was talking to my tennis teacher yesterday about Ed. My tennis teacher is a big Italian guy who is frequently trying to lose...

Has anyone else noticed the fact that, at some point during the past 5 years, school districts seem to have stopped adopting curricula and ...

Steve H's question - whether any of us knows a district that has replaced Everyday Math, TERC, Trailblazers, etc. with Singapore or Sax...

Calvin Trillin is one of my favorite writers --- I'm adding this essay to my file of 'models for writing.' Wall Street Smarts

Terrific article in the Wall Street Journal today: It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to ...

Does anyone know of any example of a town or district that has replaced Everyday Math (or TERC, etc.) with something like Singapore Math or ...

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In the course of my daily procrastination, I clicked through to this Inside Higher Ed piece on affirmative action. I'll save the debate...

A long time ago I worked for a major computer manufacturer and lived in a very small town. The town was investigating their first computer p...

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I'm an unabashed fan of E.D Hirsch. Sol Stern does a tremendous job of summarizing Hirsh's contributions to the field of education i...

Multi-Tier I've added a link on the sidebar, too, under "Direct Instruction."

Just saying .

Mary Damer on affluent suburban schools: I agree about the combination of explicit instruction and high quality music lessons, field trips ...

school board member Peter Mayer: I remember sitting in my first executive session as a school board member, in 1999, and thinking to myself,...

In Dolch's 1948 book, "Problems in Reading," he states on page 255: Give children books suited to their abilities and most rea...

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In the 2 years of participating in KTM, I have come to the conclusion that differentiated instruction is gravest of all of the myriad proble...

I am desperate to go to this conference : International Precision Teaching Conference 2009 Conference Program The Standard Celeration Societ...