kitchen table math, the sequel

The statistical model found that measures of student effort trump all other variables tested for their relationships to student success, inc...

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 students from around the globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence, starti...

Semester over. Whew .

Sharon Necaise, a public school educator at West Feliciana High School, in St. Francisville, La., told FoxNews.com her experience with Commo...

Having written a check for $445 this morning to cover the cost of the 5 AP tests my son will take in May, I figure I'm allowed to gripe ...

Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives Loss-aversion incentives increased math test scores between 0.2 and 0.4 standard deviations ...

Here's a weird thought to ponder: across the land, future teachers are being taught that direct instruction is bad, that they should be...

From Algebra II and The Declining Significance of Coursetaking : ...taking and successfully completing an Algebra II course, which once cer...

After a 3-year hiatus, I have returned to my district's school board meetings. I am, once again, a regular. It's been somewhat fu...

My daughter is a junior and in the middle of the test taking year. I went back through all the posts and gathered the resources on the SAT. ...

Lots of folks are up in arms about the "lowered" standards in high school, courtesy of Common Core. Meanwhile STEM preparation is ...

Cruising Common Core materials (there seem to be lots on Prezi), I find this (slide title: "Two Types of Essential Questions: Overarch...

Source: Educating School Leaders, p 32

Have just read this comment by Steve H: My son also has a college brochure stack two feet tall. He also made the comment that if you put y...

As the nation's schools undergo a wave of teacher retirements, some 25% of teachers have only five or fewer years in the classroom, ...

Common Core and Curriculum Controversies Something really struck me as strange during Fordham's panel discussion last week. At 54min...

From the " High School " section of Illustrativemathematics.org : Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to them...

Illustrative Mathematics  Thoughts?

At the Irvington Parents Forum blog . I'm waiting for the many apologies due to come rolling in from all the central administrators ...

He likes the book -- I may have to read!