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Bloomsbury Publishing Company is developing a series of books that presents research studies about re-inventing teacher education. Everybody know that teachers need better training than they're getting now. But for some reason many people don't seem to know what sort of training that should be. Most
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Parents may have noticed a change in the history and social studies curriculum at their children's schools after 2018. Where once American history courses focused on our country's founding principles, their roots, and their application, soon such courses started to emphasize political activism and the grievances
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Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden wins in the presidential election of 2020, we need a new kind of Secretary of Education — someone who has classroom teaching experience beyond grade 5 and has administered an elementary, middle, or high school for at least a couple of years or so. This
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With the onset of Common Core, Massachusetts's education standards for public schools have declined. How can the state regain lost ground? It's actually not that hard. Solid standards already exist. What's needed is the will to implement them.
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Supporters who want to keep Common Core's failed standards in place have come up with a new twist for deceiving unhappy parents. First, they point explicitly to Common Core as a failed strategy to increase the academic achievement of low achievers in order to alert parents to what
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State-mandated tests must by state law be based on a state's official standards. That is why the tests currently given in the Bay State (aka MCAS 2.0) are aligned to Common Core. MCAS 2.0 tests are based on or aligned to the Common Core standards for
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As intended, Common Core's standards shape tests determining "college and career readiness." But, unfortunately, they affect the preparation of teachers and administrators, as well. How they do so is not well understood by most parents. Here's how it works. Stay with me, because even
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Reading instruction is one of the very few areas where it is not the case that "more research is needed." Education policy makers have had the theory and the evidence for decades. The central problem they face in providing effective reading instruction and a sound reading curriculum stems