The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would ...
“Differentiated instruction"—both the term and the idea—can carry a lot of baggage in teaching circles. This blog has carried many posts, including a video series my colleague Katie Hull and I ...
ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — To achieve student equity, Loudon County School Board Member Ian Serotkin said he was told that the Virginia Department of Education was revamping mathematics in public ...
The sixth, seventh and eighth grade Accelerated Math classes of Wyoming Area Catholic completed a Math Vocabulary Project. Students created “Foldable and Models” using their vocabulary words as the ...
Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button ...
The Manhasset School District is considering changes to its accelerated math and science AP intensive program, including moving the math program start from sixth to seventh grade and making the ...
When gifted intervention specialist Amy Alexander prompts her Cherokee Elementary students to select an item from anywhere in the classroom, the kids spring to action. They search high and low, eager ...
NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.— A research study from Curriculum Associates recently received a Moderate (i.e., Tier 2) rating from Evidence for ESSA. The study demonstrated that students who used i-Ready ...
Today’s post is the second in a series on the hot-button issue of differentiated instruction. I teach an English as a second language (ESL) course at the university. I often am asked, “Professor, what ...