The most easily understood and usable recommendation in the recent report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel calls for shorter, focused, and more coherent textbooks. It’s easy to understand ...
Adopting a new math curriculum for grade school students will be recommended next month by the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.’s Elementary Mathematics Adoption Committee. If approved by the ...
A major middle-school math curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards today goes live for all to download, use, and adapt for free, in what will serve as a major test case as to whether ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Linda Darling-Hammond is an expert on education research and policy. PISA scores reveal deep problems in how the United States ...
The Bellevue Schools Foundation is working with Bellevue teachers, administrators, parents and students to roll out a new and improved math program to better prepare students for higher-level math ...
When I sat down with educators at the recent ISTE conference, our conversations were vibrant and enlightening. Instead of asking for the usual feedback on curriculum, I posed a different question.
NORWALK — Grace Papadakos walked into math class at Nathan Hale Middle School donning a confident smile. Despite a large room full of 75-or-so bustling sixth-graders with no permanently assigned seats ...
PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE 2 TO 3 YEARS TO COMPLETE. JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE TRAINING THIS WEEK FOR A NEW CURRICULUM THAT WILL START THIS UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR. THE NEW CURRICULUM ...
Math 123 may be a well-intended effort to prepare students for a globally competitive workplace, but it’s a proven failure that’s causing substantially more harm than good. Math 123 radically changed ...
In teacher Beth O'Regan's Franklin Elementary classroom, learning how to multiply and divide fractions isn't as simple as memorizing the answer to the equation. Rather, O'Regan asks her kids to ...
The California Board of Education is set to push back against implementing an overhaul of its mathematics curriculum after opponents argued the plan needlessly inserts politics and social justice ...
Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren’t even told that such paintings ...