In the fight against students’ learning loss, numerous states and school districts have implemented new curriculum in reading and math, bringing fresh urgency to another important issue that needs to ...
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A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. It’s an indirect way of teaching ...
Two groups have aimed to find consensus in one contested area of the ongoing reading wars: what the “science of reading” should look like for English learners. In a statement released in October, The ...
As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...
Experience and research point to the need for teachers to strike a balance between direct instruction of facts and developing students' scientific curiosity as they pursue team projects.
Since leaving the classroom over 40 years ago, around the same time as “A Nation at Risk” was published, I have remained deeply embedded in education, working to develop tools to support educators in ...
Source: Zjarral1 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Learning new skills can be a great way to keep an aging brain in shape. How can ...
Many of those gardens were started with the help of the School Garden Network. There are now around 150 school gardens in the ...