When a student moves from one school to another, one of the biggest adjustments he or she must make — aside from meeting and making new friends — is academically. A student lights a small piece of ...

Two Frewsburg residents contacted me with questions. Concerned about his grandchildren being taught using Common Core, the grandfather wanted to know Frewsburg’s results on state assessments. Another ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...

Technology is getting more and more sophisticated at tasks which previously required human work. What technology can’t replace is innovation, spirit and the subtleties of human creativity. Despite ...

The Louisiana state Department of Education did make the right choice in adopting the Common Core standards. The Common Core places each student in every state on a scheduled path, focuses on ...

In 2009, state governors were growing increasingly concerned over students' inability to compete globally. Plagued by inconsistent academic standards, study after study indicated that the U.S. was ...

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