kitchen table math, the sequel

Update here .

I was thinking the incredible results people find with retrieval practice sounded too good to be true, and now I'm worried they are: ...

I'm reading Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel's Make It Stick  in a mixed state of trepidation and fascination. Trepidation because th...

Utopia can't wait (As the parent of two autistic kids I've spent years of my life listening to Barney sing "Just Imagine......

In a new type of advanced government class at Seattle’s Garfield High, the students rarely sit quietly taking notes while their teacher sta...

I just spent 3 days writing 169 words. Good thing I'm not a poet.

Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy     April 16, 2014 A new scientific study fr...

Someone else commented that their impression was that the making tens stuff comes and goes relatively quickly in Singapore math as students ...

As per post below, here are some small examples of how frequent and explicit the making ten strategies are in addition and subtraction in Pr...

Peter Elbow on the composing process I remember posting this before (or at least discussing it in Comments -- I think I recall gasstationw...

Fundraising flier from Wellesley. Which pretty much rules out contributions from Wellesley grads who are: a) married to men and/or b) ...

Steve had some fabulous news on Thursday!!! (Has he posted?? In the comments somewhere??) If he hasn't, I'm not telling!

T-minus seven hours and counting. It's like the owls in Harry Potter when the electronic acceptances (or rejections) come in. However, h...

I edited! (So I'm bemoaning a couple of too-long-for-onscreen-reading sentences... Seeking the Top Score (Part I) By Helen Yoshida on...

The 1992 Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools governs, to a considerable extent, the mathematics curriculum in California...

12 months ago, you could raise funding for your startup overnight if you were doing "big data" for education (even though the dat...

A compelling vision of the data-driven future of K-12 schooling? Or a chilling description of a brave new educational world in which even s...

The distinction being made here between the content standard and a strategy for showing that standard IS the crux of the problem for CC. ...

Our airwaves are saturated with unbelievably effective pro-charter ads (from  Charters Work ). This one in particular is riveting; I watch...

Bill Gates: OK. So what is the Common Core? It’s a very simple thing. It’s a written explanation of what knowledge kids should achieve at v...