In math, students learn the concept of rates and ratios and use these tools to solve word problems. Students work on dividing multi-digit whole numbers and adding, subtracting, multiplying, and ...
The Common Core, the set of federal educational guidelines being implemented in schools across the country, is attracting a lot of ire. For years, teachers have complained that Common Core will ...
An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. An in-depth discussion of Common ...
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Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...
The Common Core State Standards have become a political hot potato. In some cases, a punching bag. (Pick your cliche.) But the fact remains that, in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the ...
Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...
The Common Core State Standards arose from a simple idea: that creating one set of challenging academic expectations for all students would improve achievement and college readiness. But the idea ...
A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...