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Look to China for Math?

August 8, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

The UK is investing heavily in textbooks used in schools in Shanghai, China; perhaps the United States could benefit by looking at their methods as well.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Chinese, Common Core Math, New York Times, Shanghai Math, Singapore Math, United Kingdom

Common Core Does Not Help Kids Write

August 4, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: Kids have struggled with their ability to write for a long time, but Common Core has not helped and, in fact, has hindered student progress.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core, Dana Goldstein, New York Times, Sandra Stotsky, writing

One Argument Not to Make About School Choice

July 31, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart: There are legitimate concerns about and arguments to be made over school choice, but Katherine Stewart’s argument isn’t one of those.

Filed Under: Homeschool / Private School Tagged With: Common Core, David French, Indiana Voucher Program, Katherine Stewart, National Review, New York Times, school choice

Betsy DeVos’ Hard Line on Every Student Succeeds Act

July 10, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

Betsy DeVos has fully embraced the power ESSA gave her to approve state accountability plans and has no trouble with exerting federal control.

Filed Under: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, Education Week, Every Student Succeeds Act, New York Times

Silicon Valley’s Influence on Public Education

June 30, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

Silicon Valley tech companies want taxpayers to pay for public schools to teach coding to prepare more American students to go to work for them.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Apple, Code.org, computer programming, computer science, Natasha Singer, New York Times, Sarah Reckhow, Silicon Valley, Timothy Cook, workforce development

Trump’s Secretary of Education Short List

November 15, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

Who will President-Elect Donald Trump appoint as his Secretary for Education? Shane Vander Hart looks at the speculated short list.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alyson Klein, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Education Week, Eva Moskowitz, Fox News, Gerard Robinson, Luke Messer, Michelle Rhee, Mike Pence, New York Times, Tony Bennett, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Secretary of Education, Vic Klatt, Williamson Evers

The New Jersey Board of Education Doubles Down on Stupid

August 4, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

The New Jersey Board of Education just voted to require high school students to pass the PARCC Algebra I exam and 10th Grade English exam to graduate.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: New Jersey, New Jersey Board of Education, New York Times, PARCC

Medical Doctor Explains Why Handwriting Is Still Essential

June 22, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

Perri Klaus, MD objects to discarding handwriting, and in an op/ed in The New York Times explains why it is still essential even in a “keyboard age.”

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core ELA Standards, cursive, handwriting, keyboard age, New York Times, Perri Klaus

Teaching Experience? Who Needs Teaching Experience?

June 25, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

Pearson does not require teaching experience for their scorers for the PARCC assessments. What could possibly go wrong?

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, New York Times, PARCC, Pearson, scoring

Teaching Literature as Teaching Particular Concepts and Skills

June 24, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

If all you do is teach a particular set of concepts and skills within a novel you are not teaching literature.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core ELA Standards, New York Times, Valarie Strauss

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