Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...

Love them or hate them, the Common Core State Standards in math and English/Language Arts are being implemented in classrooms in most of the country — in some places better than others. A nonpartisan ...

The 53 teachers gathered around tables here have been called to a new kind of jury duty. But they won’t be deciding whether a fellow citizen is guilty of a crime: Their charge is to pass judgment on ...

LearnZillion, a company that provides teacher-created lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards, has announced the members of its 2014 teacher “Dream Team.” The 200 educators selected for the ...

It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...

Syracuse, NY -- It's early afternoon at Syracuse's Huntington K-8 School, and teacher Colleen Brigati and her third-graders are hard at work. Brigati draws a cylinder on the blackboard. She labels it ...

Question: Does Common Core’s focus on skills and test results hurt teachers? Answer: It could—in a couple different ways. First, there’s the cost and work of implementing Common Core (the Pioneer ...

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