Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...
The new question-of-the-week is: How can we help English Language Learners meet the Common Core Standards? In Part One, Kevin Jepson, Elizabeth Iwaszewicz, Dr. Heidi Pace, Cathy Beck, Gayle Westerberg ...
Of all the changes triggered by the Common Core State Standards, perhaps none is more surprising than an uptick in jobs for elementary school physical education teachers in California. Back from near ...
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You've heard the complaints — now take a close look at a top-notch lesson plan. As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the ...
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Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith. “It ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Common Core, a ...
EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing As a former student who came to school speaking only Spanish, elementary teacher Gabriela Orozco Gonzalez says she can relate ...
Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...
Linnea Wolters was prepared to hate the Common Core State Standards. She taught fifth grade at a low-income school in Reno, Nev., where, she says, there was always some new plan to improve things. And ...