Curriculum and Learning

The latest stories on the application of courses and their content in schools.

Commentary

Service Learning: An On-Ramp to National Service

The education sector has a major role to play in new national initiatives to promote service learning, say James C. Kielsmeier and Jim Scheibel. September 5, 2008

Commentary

Scientific Literacy Without a Text

Students with a strong grasp of language could "infuse society with individuals capable of discussing the natural world in a literate manner," says W. Jason Neidermeyer. September 5, 2008

Networking Teachers Coaxing Colleagues to Use Technology

The Discovery Educator Network offers hundreds of webinars, blogs, meetings, and workshops to help explain and show how various devices and applications work and ways to adapt them to the curriculum. September 5, 2008

School Groups Challenge Calif. Algebra Mandate

September 5, 2008, AP

Arizona Still Grappling With Balance on Mandated ELL Instruction

Education officials are giving school districts some room to diverge from a mandate that all English-language learners be taught specific English skills in classrooms separate from other students for four hours a day. September 2, 2008

News Briefs

Science in Plain English

August 25, 2008

Financing Extra Learning Time

A second report released by the Center for American Progress on July 21 explores the costs involved in moving to an extended school schedule and suggests options educators can take to pay for it. July 29, 2008

GE Funds Math, Science in N.Y.C.:

The foundation for the General Electric Co. is providing a $5 million grant to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instruction in 10 public schools in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. July 15, 2008

Long Live the King

Steve Wiebe is a math teacher in suburban Seattle—and quite possibly, a celebrity in almost any video-game parlor in the world. June 17, 2008

Somber Students Found to Outperform Cheerful Students

A new study found that children who feel happy don’t do as well on tasks that require precision as their peers who are sad or have neutral feelings. June 10, 2008

Labor Tiff Comes With a Price Tag: $13.2 Million

Nobody’s happy about the union-management standoff that’s left Washington state without a $13.2 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to support the teaching of Advanced Placement classes. May 20, 2008

More News Briefs

Recess Makes Comeback in Middle Schools

September 2, 2008, AP

Commentary

Small Sacrifices

"It is the educator’s moral obligation to help students embrace causes larger than themselves, and to encourage them to display good citizenship in all spheres of life," says Bernice Lerner. August 29, 2008

Commentary

Are Advanced Placement Courses Diminishing Liberal Arts Education?

AP preparation is overrated and may diminish, rather than advance, the deeper objectives of a liberal arts education, says UCLA senior lecturer Paul Von Blum. August 29, 2008

Guidance by Principals Emerging as Crucial in Science Instruction

Outreach efforts seek to train school leaders to understand, advocate for good teaching. Updated: September 2, 2008

Commentary

'Curriculum Is Not Dogma'

August 22, 2008

Stereotype of Mathematical Inferiority Still Plagues Girls

August 22, 2008

U.S. Journal Reports Numbers Not Necessary to Count

August 18, 2008, AP

Educators Peer Over Students’ Shoulders at Mich. Math Lab

August 11, 2008

Commentary

Reversing Reluctance

August 5, 2008

Saving Oneida Language Becomes a Full Time Job

August 4, 2008, AP

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