Education News and Bookmarking for Mathetude community http://www.mathetude.com:80/rss/stories/upcoming.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/images/logo.png http://www.mathetude.com:80/ vi-vn Copyright (c) 2007 Mathetude.com javacola@gmail.com Sat May 19 18:42:42 CST 2012 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.mathetude.com:80/ Universities, community colleges, and K-12 districts in 30 states announced plans this week to work together on redesigning secondary mathematics teacher preparation to align to the Common Core State Standards. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15478.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15478.html Mathetude Newman 18/05/2012 Mathematical literacy is being able to do, understand, and apply mathematics, not only in the classroom, but in everyday lives. Ensuring that students are mathematically literate must be a priority in every Wisconsin classroom so that students are confident, competent, and ready for college and career. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15467.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15467.html Mathetude Newman 16/05/2012 The National Center for Education Statistics plans to check data on about 5,000 high schools after faulty information from the federal agency led to erroneous rankings for three high schools on U.S. News & World Report’s yearly “Best High Schools” report. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15466.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15466.html Mathetude Newman 16/05/2012 Frederick M. Hess & Whitney Downs -- When it comes to reforming our nation's public schools, we hear a lot about what educational leaders can't do. Contracts, laws, and regulations assuredly handcuff school and system leaders. But the ardent drumbeat for "reform" has obscured the fact that school and system leaders can actually do much that they often complain they can't, if they have the persistence, knowledge, ingenuity, and motivation. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15432.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15432.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 Erik W. Robelen -- Today, we got a dose of good news/bad news on U.S. achievement in science. The positive development was that average scores inched up for 8th graders, and the achievement gap narrowed for Hispanic and African American students. The downside? Most 8th graders still failed to reach the "proficient" level on the nation's report card. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15431.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15431.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 The Innosight Institute this week released a new white paper in which it takes the previous six categories it created to differentiate blended learning models and, well, blends them. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15430.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15430.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 Alyson Klein -- Education advocates have been sweating for months over a series of planned cuts that are slated to hit every K-12 program in January—unless Brokedown Congress can figure out a way to stop it. Well, today the House of Representatives passed a bill that would stop the cuts—known in Inside-the-Beltway speak as "sequestration"—for a year for all programs, and permanently for defense spending. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15429.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15429.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 Walt Gardner -- No matter how compelling the evidence to the contrary, reformers persist in the fiction that a college-preparatory curriculum is the best way to prepare students for the future. By refusing to acknowledge reality, they are doing a terrible disservice to countless students whose talents and interests lie elsewhere. In the process, they're aiding and abetting educational suicide. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15428.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15428.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 Erik W. Robelen -- An ambitious effort to refocus K-12 science education across the nation enters a new phase today with the release of the first public draft of voluntary, “next generation” science standards. Organizers say the standards emphasize not simply providing a foundation of essential knowledge, but also ensuring that students apply that learning through scientific inquiry and the engineering-design process to deepen their understanding. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15427.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15427.html Mathetude Newman 11/05/2012 Catherine Gewertz -- One of the things I hear most frequently on my beat, reporting on common standards and assessments, is frustration with the lack of instructional resources available at the moment. So it's worth noting the progress of significant efforts to create those resources. http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15411.html http://www.mathetude.com:80/story/view/15411.html Mathetude Newman 10/05/2012