US History: Most Students Aren’t Proficient
The NAEP results are in: And scores are flat, again. Once again, most students scored below the “proficient” level in U.S. history. Only twenty percent of fourth-graders, seventeen percent of...
View ArticleTraining Great Teachers
We’ve written often on teacher preparation programs’ lack of emphasis on the content knowledge of future teachers. The debate over the relative importance of subject matter and pedagogical methods in...
View ArticleWhat we’re reading…
Kathleen Porter-Magee at the Fordham Institute has written excellent blog post in which she highlights an important difference between two schools of thought in the education reform movement. Those...
View ArticleMathematician Finds P21’s New Math Skills Map “Does Nothing to Help Teachers”
Readers of this blog are familiar with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a collaborative of technology and education companies that aggressively advocates for reorienting K-12 education...
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