Curriculum and Instruction

The latest news about curriculum and instruction, including articles, Commentaries, and special features.

Mapping out the landscape of academic content and instruction in the common-core era.

SPECIAL REPORT

Math, Literacy, & Common Standards

Nearly every state has signed on to use the Common Core State Standards as a framework for teaching English/language arts and mathematics to students. Translating them for the classroom, however, requires schools, teachers, and students to change the way they approach teaching and learning. This report examines the progress some states have made in implementing the standards, what preparations need to be undertaken, and the challenges that policymakers and educators face in achieving the goals of the standards. (April 23, 2012)

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Spotlight on Algebra

As more American students are being encouraged to take introductory algebra in 8th grade, efforts to support algebra instruction are examined.

Spotlight on Creating Readers

This Spotlight focuses on tools used to improve students' reading skills, and achieving full literacy.

Spotlight on Math Instruction

This Spotlight focuses on strategies for encouraging students to participate in math through reasoning and sense-making sills.

Spotlight on Reading Instruction

This Spotlight focuses on research on what works in teaching reading and successful tools and tactics already at work in classrooms.

Spotlight on STEM in Schools

This Spotlight takes a closer look at innovative approaches to STEM teaching and learning in American schools.

Curriculum Matters Blog

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Studies Illustrate Plight of Introverted Students
Academic outcomes improve for quiet students when there's less pressure to speak up, according to experts.
May 22, 2012 - Education Week
Commentary
Use Technology to Upend Traditional Classrooms
Schools should use technology to rethink education, not simply speed up what they do now, Justin Reich says.
May 22, 2012 - Education Week
Child Literacy Overhaul Now Law in Colorado
May 18, 2012 - AP
Incoming College Board Head Wants SAT to Reflect Common Core
David Coleman, a lead writer of the common standards whose nonprofit is producing curriculum materials, will take over as president of the organization on Oct. 15.
May 16, 2012 - Education Week
Opinion
Beginning Teacher Induction: What the Data Tell Us
Induction support programs for beginning teachers is an education reform whose time has come, says Richard M. Ingersoll.
May 16, 2012 - Education Week
With Entire Texas Board Up for Grabs, So Too Are Science Standards
May 16, 2012 - AP
Gifted Programs Aim to Regain Budget Toehold
But efforts to restore federal funds for a long-running gifted education program lack Obama administration support.
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
Algebraic Thinking Should Be Taught Early, Often
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
Research Skills Need to Be Taught
May 15, 2012 - Education Week
Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL
But state and district special education directors say there are still widespread misperceptions about the universal design for learning concept.
May 15, 2012 - Education Week

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