Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...
As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the new Common Core State Standards. In the Internet era, the best resources should ...
Love them or hate them, the Common Core State Standards in math and English/Language Arts are being implemented in classrooms in most of the country — in some places better than others. A nonpartisan ...
As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating ...
The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Last year Melody ...
The 53 teachers gathered around tables here have been called to a new kind of jury duty. But they won’t be deciding whether a fellow citizen is guilty of a crime: Their charge is to pass judgment on ...
Syracuse, NY -- It's early afternoon at Syracuse's Huntington K-8 School, and teacher Colleen Brigati and her third-graders are hard at work. Brigati draws a cylinder on the blackboard. She labels it ...
LearnZillion, a company that provides teacher-created lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards, has announced the members of its 2014 teacher “Dream Team.” The 200 educators selected for the ...