“It’s not just that students are failing to catch up, but that students are continuing to fall behind,” says one of the report’s authors, Harvard’s Tom Kane. That reading trend line raises important questions about how quickly states can expect...
The idea of forcing children to learn a specific set of facts and topics is controversial. It runs counter to...
Two of the most important federal funding streams to public schools are: Title I, which provides money to help districts...
James makes sure to show historical figures alongside others to “expand the narrative.” Adding that, “Sometimes with children, especially kindergartners,...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which provides data for the Nation’s Report Card, is mandated by Congress and...
Like Luther, many teachers might have new students in their classrooms in the spring semester. Luther kick-starts these classes with...
The mentor’s mindset shatters the idea that influential adults must be either tough guys or a soft touch. “Neither approach...
Gamified learning activities can get students engaged really quickly, but these strategies don’t breed the long-lasting motivation for learning that...
Neither mode approximated real life conditions. The students were instructed to write in cursive without lifting the stylus from the...
Fuchs’ view challenges hundreds of studies that have consistently found that inclusive educational settings have substantial benefits for the cognitive...
