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.

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

More schools are moving away from traditional points-based systems toward standards-based grading, which measures what students actually learn. This approach aims to increase transparency, help ...

• 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 ...

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 ...

Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: “Oscar, doctor, president.” The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and become ...

A recent shift in education policy and school reform toward reaching consensus on and establishing standards for what students need to know and be able to do at each grade or developmental level.

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