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Last week when a eighth-grade English teacher at our local middle school asked his class if anyone knew what was going on in Egypt, only t...

I've talked about how our high school's math expectations drove out CMP in 7th and 8th grades. There was a curriculum gap for those ...

Three children have a foot race in which the leader after 1 minute is declared the winner. Each child runs at a constant speed. At the end o...

I hear from a friend who teaches college computer science that many CS educators agree on the following: There is too much emphasis on cal...

"Call for Papers Integrated STEM Education Conference 2011 (ISEC 2011) Best Practices in Integrated STEM Instruction We are soliciting ...

After my post on the middle school character cluster assignment , I thought I would follow up with an introduction to graphic organizers (a...

Kids Aren't As Internet Savvy As They Think If you read it to the end -- I promise a website worth the click.

Over at The Atlantic a guest blogger brought up for discussion a study showing students don't really learn anything their first two yea...

Two new posts at some favorite blogs: Grace describes a middle school assignment that would have benefited from some proof-reading and atten...

The Educationist View of Math Education

Hi everyone - I'm back in IL, hanging out in the Highland Park Hospital ICU. Since I'm not, at the moment, able to focus on the ...

Many Most * high schools establish criteria for admission to honors and/or AP classes.  Here's a window into how one school does it. ...

The three articles in the Chronicle are especially good.

at the New York Times I don't know what it means for a university to be a "member" of College Board, but there you have it. ...

11:35pm ME: Hey! What did M. say about the SAT? C: He said it wasn't that bad! ME: Really? C: Yeah! ME: That's great! D. s...

Dumbest thing I ever said: " Is there a political movement against charter schools for suburban kids? On the front page in today'...

QUESTION: Your method may work with children with a native high IQ—but demanding that kind of excellence from less intelligent children see...

Educators rely heavily on learning activities that encourage elaborative studying, while activities that require students to practice retrie...