Administrators at Hayes High School reported Tuesday the school’s new standards-based grading has increased the school’s performance index and drastically reduced failures.

School leaders can play a pivotal role in aligning curriculum and standards, and in ensuring that teachers receive effective ...

Jill Underly, who is running for re-election, overhauled the state's standardized testing benchmarks and renamed the levels ...

The National Academies have launched the Collaborative for Advancing Science Teaching and Learning in K-12, a new activity that will convene stakeholders to develop evidence-based policies and ...

The kindergarteners are not just moving their bodies. They’re also engaged in activities that 5-year-old boys see as ...

Change must come from the bottom up. To successfully implement math and English language frameworks, we will need effective, ...

Jenni Torres is the new executive director of WIDA, the organization that oversees English learner assessments in most states ...

teachers are focused on delivering instructional lessons that enables students to meet and exceed state proficiency standards. Through a professional development program known as “Beyond ...

Project-based learning: This instructional approach is a great way to utilize a language experience in a classroom and still provide higher-level thinking. When students are asked to build a project ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls has welcomed a ruling by a federal district court in the United States that reaffirms sex-based protections in education. Independent ...

More important, uniform standards ensure high expectations ... credits for free while in high school, as well as work-based learning programs that provide students opportunities to learn real ...

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