The No Child Left Behind Act is far from perfect, but it has had a positive impact on our schools. As Congress prepares to reauthorize the law, it should not toss out the program, but fix what is ...
More than 10 years ago, a group of deans from many of the nation’s premier teacher education programs warned of the consequences of continuing to be disconnected from research, classrooms, and the ...
Q. My students are having such trouble with measurement. Particularly changing units, like feet to yards, etc. I teach fifth grade and it is my first year. I am stumped and all of the things I’ve ...
"You can’t measure what we teach." "The results [of what our students gain in the classroom] won’t be known for 10 years." "You're just going to use the information to evaluate us." Those are just a ...
Many have written about how massive open online courses and online learning will change the world. But not much attention has been paid to how much harder it will be to hide poor lecturing with ...
More than 200 faculty members at 20 Iowa colleges have signed a statement opposing a proposed state law that would give instructors at public colleges and schools a legal right to teach alternatives ...
The memo, according to a source at the university asked to comment on it, will express concerns on “how on earth can you possibly evaluate teaching quality without creating a huge bureaucratic burden?