Shane Vander Hart: I’m trying to picture my 7th-Grade math teacher, Mr. Looft, supporting me as I created my “own mathematical understanding.” If I were left to “discover” the strategies I needed to solve problems I would have failed, miserably.
Trump’s FY19 Education Budget Proposes an $8.1 Billion Cut
President Donald Trump released his proposed FY19 budget this week and it proposes cutting $8.1 billion from the U.S. Department of Education’s discretionary spending compared to what the department received from the annualized FY18 continuing resolutions.
Computer Science Makes The Case For Less Computer Use in Schools
Anne Gassel: What we are teaching, or not teaching, today will take almost 20 years to show up in the workforce. There is some urgency to get it right.
Back to School Lingo Cheat Sheet
From STEM, STEAM, and STREAM to community schools, social-emotional learning and mindfulness parents need to understand education speak used in schools.
Rocket Science for Babies?
This may be taking STEM a tad too far. NPR introduced an author who writes books about rocket science and physics to very young children.
Long Live the Liberal Arts!
Even before the development of Common Core we have seen a shift in education towards workforce development model at the expense of liberal arts.
Introducing STEM in Preschool
Curriculum is being developed that will introduce the problem-solving process that is basic to science, technology, engineering and math fields in preschool.
Math Education in Jeopardy
Jay Matthews at The Washington Post wrote another piece about the crisis in our nation’s math instruction under Common Core.
What Has Caused California’s Teacher Shortage?
While it is unlikely that Common Core caused California’s teacher shortage, it is likely that it will exasperate the problem down the road.
Should American High Schools Prepare any Students for STEM? Common Core Doesn’t Think So
When states adopted Common Core’s mathematics standards, they were told (among other things) that these standards would make all high school students “college- and career-ready” and strengthen the critical pipeline for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). However, with the exception of a few standards in trigonometry, the math standards end after Algebra II, as […]