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Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC

For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other shoe to drop. In April 2011, Abbott, who teaches mathematics to seventh- and eighth-graders at the Anderson School, a citywide gifted-and-talented…

Watch: Will Common Core State Standards improve literacy?

As American students continue to fall behind foreign peers, 45 states and Washington, D.C. have adopted the Common Core State Standards, a new set of academic benchmarks aimed at raising…

Time out from testing resolution to abandon FCAT gains momentum

A national resolution to urge education administrators to rely less on standardized testing is gaining a wave of support in South Florida, the Huffington Post reports.…

Flipping for fitness

Flipping for fitness

Physical education (PE) teachers are often on the short end of the stick when it comes to technology innovations in school. When the battle of the bulge is fought every…

National Flight Academy Camp teaches teens math, science

The planes are imaginary and Ambition is a simulated aircraft carrier, the centerpiece of the new, $33 million National Flight Academy that supporters are calling space camp taken to the…

Standardized tests will no longer ask 3rd-graders to reveal a secret

State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about why it was difficult to keep, the Associated Press…

Study: Common Core could boost U.S. math performance

Study: Common Core could boost U.S. math performance

The Common Core State Standards in mathematics have the potential to enhance students' academic performance if properly implemented, but most states have a long way to go, according to research…

Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science

Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science

Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing slightly better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal government said…

Teacher on flawed tests: ‘We can ill-afford to be silent while our very jobs are at stake’

I received the following email from a New York State math teacher, says Valerie Strauss, columnist for the Washington Post. …

Why more schools aren’t teaching web literacy—and how they can start

Why more schools aren’t teaching web literacy—and how they can start

In 1998, a 15-year-old high school student used the personal website of a professor at Northwestern University, Arthur Butz, as justification for writing a history paper called “The Historic Myth…

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