Sixth-grade math teacher Stephanie Britton from Franklin County, Ky., strives to make the subject interesting for her students by explaining it in terms of real-world applications. She's created lessons about the football season and has even used toilet paper in examples.
The coronavirus pandemic threatens to worsen equity gaps in education, according to Ryan Reyna, senior director of Education Strategy Group. In this commentary, Reyna shares findings of a new report from the organization and suggestions to help reverse that trajectory, such as a focus on ninth-grade GPA and encouraging completion of the Free Application for…
How can I teach music if the kids aren’t allowed to sing indoors? How will lag time affect group singing online? How will I make students feel seen and heard via Zoom? Those were some of the questions that elementary music teacher Angela Carpenter spent her summer trying to figure out.
Drawing on their panel discussion at an assessment conference, grading experts Susan Brookhart, Thomas Guskey, Jay McTighe, and Dylan Wiliam, share eight principles that will help grading be part of a balanced assessment system. Read more in Educational Leadership.
Børn med flygtningebaggrund, der ankommer til nordiske lande i den sene skolealder, klarer sig dårligere i skolen i Danmark, end de gør i Sverige. Det viser en ny videnskabelig undersøgelse fra det nordiske CAGE projekt med deltagelse af forskere fra Københavns Universitet.