Glenwood Springs Middle School science teacher Rob Buirgy knows teaching the scientific method to seventh-graders can be a challenge.Students must grasp each step, from hypotheses to conclusion.

Quality Counts at 10: What’s Next for Standards-Based Reform? Feb. 1, 2006 Marshall S. Smith, program director for education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, discusses what the future has ...

This week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Quality Counts 2006, the 10th edition of its annual report on the condition of education across the states. Taking an ...

The Committee on Goals 2000 and the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities was established by the Goals 2000 legislation "to conduct a comprehensive study of the inclusion of children with ...

[IN THIS ISSUE]: What Does Standards-based Educational Reform Mean for English Language Learner Populations in Primary and Secondary Schools? [IN THIS ISSUE]: What Does Standards-based Educational ...

Some school districts, including ones in Maine, New Mexico, Iowa and Oregon, are shifting to standards-based grading, where students are graded on the skills and concepts they learn instead of points ...

A video to increase public awareness on standards based education has been released. A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Education said the video was part of the Ministry and Department of Education’s ...

• The Madison school district is changing how students learn throughout the year, maintaining the grading system Madison used in middle school • East High School has already switched to the new system ...

Traditional letter grades have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Today’s parents received As, Bs, and Cs from their teachers when they were in school, and most parents expect to see ...

To provide just-in-time information on students’ mastery of the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) and instructional recommendations to address specific learning loss, Curriculum Associates has ...

In recent years, most states have initiated major changes in curriculum, instruction, and testing for elementary and secondary school students. These changes, funded and encouraged by federal and ...