high expectations for students and teachers, paired with evidence-based instruction, are especially powerful for students who ...

The rollout of the Common Core State Standards has been bumpy, to say the least. Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia rejected the common core from the outset. Oklahoma and Indiana have withdrawn ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Madison School District is changing how students will learn throughout the year, transitioning from traditional percentage-based grading to standards-based learning at the high ...

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 ...

Students work on a literacy assignment at a Texas elementary school. Standards based on the science of reading have been shown to improve achievement. Credit: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report The ...

Apr. 13—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 ...

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 ...

As cratering test scores intensify California’s resolve to improve student reading, one thing appears certain: the state’s newest teachers need to know how to teach literacy using foundational reading ...

Bowling Green Junior High Principal Robert Lightning recalled how over the decades, students discussed letter grades after getting test results. But these days, amid a shift from traditional grading, ...

For generations, school-aged children (and their parents) have measured academic progress the same way, with a single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F. It was a simple ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: “Oscar, doctor, president.” The 17-year-old, ...