Teaching Students How to Be Leaders
We must begin to implement learning for boldness, courage, being one's best and listening - as if this were a new math curriculum, systematically, vertically, and purposefully. Read Full Post >
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June 03, 2013
May 31, 2013
Summit Focuses on Blending of Technology, the Arts
Attendees at a conference on "reimagining education," emphasized blending the use of technology with other subjects, including the arts. Read Full Post >
May 30, 2013
Miami-Dade To Offer Curriculum from University of Cambridge
The Florida school district will soon offer the programs from the Cambridge International Examinations in 86 schools. Read Full Post >
May 28, 2013
Teachers Could Shift the Conversation About Assessment and Accountability
At the Mission Hill School in Boston, teachers decide which ways to assess their students, and why. Educator Kim Farris-Berg imagines what it would like like if all teachers across the country were similarly trusted. Read Full Post >
May 24, 2013
Utah Charter School Brings Early Focus on Business Education
The Highmark Charter School, in South Weber, Utah, is integrating business concepts across the curriculum, even at early grades. Read Full Post >
May 23, 2013
EdWeek Explores One District's Dive Into Common Core
EdWeek begins a four-part series on how the District of Columbia school system is putting the English/language arts standards into practice. Read Full Post >
May 22, 2013
A Time for Taking Stock in the Blogosphere
But I remain convinced that there is a larger role for independent schools, dimly imaginable as being something like a national laboratory program for educational experimentation and innovation, that we haven't yet fully articulated among ourselves as a body. Read Full Post >
May 21, 2013
Student Data Too Often a Tangled Web for Schools, Report Says
Schools are awash in data, but their tech systems lack "interoperability," or the ability to work together, a new report concludes. Read Full Post >
May 18, 2013
The Common Core and Disadvantaged Students
Marc Tucker addresses recent backlash against the Common Core State Standards and explains why they will benefit disadvantaged students. Read Full Post >
May 10, 2013
What Does it Really Mean to be College and Work Ready?
Marc Tucker explains the findings of his organization's study on the English and mathematics requirements to be successful in the first year of community colleges. Read Full Post >
