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City schools to revisit curriculum planning
- By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Published 05/28/2007
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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The Pittsburgh Public Schools has ordered substantial revisions to correct deficiencies in courses and tests that were rolled out this school year in the first phase of an $8.4 million curriculum overhaul.
Portland School Board approves new curriculum materials
- By The Oregonian
- Published 05/21/2007
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Reading lessons will look more alike in both rich and poor elementary schools next year, and high school students will learn from updated science, history, government and literature textbooks, after the Portland School Board approved new curriculum materials tonight.
New science A-levels are 'dumbed down'
- By Daily Telegraph (UK)
- Published 04/14/2007
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12 , International Headlines
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New science A-levels are being "dumbed down" to such an extent that some courses will demand no prior knowledge of the subject. Draft syllabuses for chemistry and biology published by one exam board state that the first part of the qualification, the AS-level, can be tackled without the candidate having studied the subject before.
A CORE CURRICULUM
- By The Oregonian
- Published 12/29/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Classroom uniformity does not equal equity
Portland Public Schools administrators are in the process of pushing through a core curriculum aimed at offering the same courses at all district secondary schools. Among the primary rationales for this experiment are concerns about student mobility and the belief that common course sequences, common textbooks and common assessment procedures will assure a comparable education wherever PPS students attend school.
Portland Public Schools administrators are in the process of pushing through a core curriculum aimed at offering the same courses at all district secondary schools. Among the primary rationales for this experiment are concerns about student mobility and the belief that common course sequences, common textbooks and common assessment procedures will assure a comparable education wherever PPS students attend school.
Educator equates algebra, success
- By Sacramento Bee (free registration required)
- Published 12/15/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Professor and civil rights advocate Bob Moses visits city to push math model.
Bob Moses sees algebra as a civil rights issue -- if poor children don't learn high-level math, he argues, they'll never get the jobs they need as adults to pull themselves out of poverty....
Gregoire proposal would aid math, science
- By Seattle Times
- Published 12/11/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Two weeks after recommending a delay in math requirements for high-school graduates, Gov. Christine Gregoire on Monday announced a $197...
Reshaping how elementary schools teach science
- By Providence Journal
- Published 12/10/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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At a time when colleges are looking for better ways to train prospective teachers and school systems are striving to improve math and science education, a research team at the University of Rhode Island is pursuing both those goals — reshaping how elementary teachers teach science.
Evolution, 'design' are still hot topics
- By Deseret News
- Published 12/7/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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There's no legal or scientific room for teaching Intelligent Design in public schools, National Center for Science Education executive director Eugenie Scott told a science teachers convention in Salt Lake City Thursday.
Cameron: focus on core school subjects
- By The Independent (UK)
- Published 12/5/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12 , International Headlines
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A return to the days when history and foreign languages were compulsory for all children up until the age of 16 could be on the cards if the Conservatives win the next election.
Schools Mull Cutting Down on Math Topics-- Topics = Better Instruction
- By Washington Post
- Published 12/4/2006
- K-12 , Curriculum , Daily EdNews
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By Daniel de Vise
A typical state math curriculum runs a mile wide and an inch deep, resulting in students being introduced to too many concepts but mastering too few, report says.
A typical state math curriculum runs a mile wide and an inch deep, resulting in students being introduced to too many concepts but mastering too few, report says.
Dreyfuss Campaigns for Civics Curriculum
- By Associated Press
- Published 12/4/2006
- K-12 , Curriculum , Daily EdNews
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Richard Dreyfuss wants to show Americans how to be better citizens. "The teaching of civics presently in the United States is dismal and startling," the Oscar-winning actor said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
Divided on how to teach math
- By The Intelligencer
- Published 12/3/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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There's a passionate debate storming across the nation over how best to teach math. It's known as the “math wars,” and some say the very future of a generation of American students is at stake.
Coaching + Math = Success
- By Boston Globe
- Published 11/30/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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THE MASSACHUSETTS Board of Education wants to get more students to score at the proficient and advanced levels on the MCAS tests. To do that, the Legislature and the board need to deal with the alarming weakness in mathematics scores in the later elementary grades. Math teaching needs improvement, and that effort requires special expertise not now widely available in the classroom.
Consulting plus school adds up to inquiry
- By The Oregonian
- Published 11/23/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Math - The Beaverton district looks at the circumstances of a
curriculum change
A former Beaverton School District employee received tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from a nonprofit education group after helping lead Beaverton's adoption of a controversial math curriculum.
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A former Beaverton School District employee received tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees from a nonprofit education group after helping lead Beaverton's adoption of a controversial math curriculum.
Trailblazers math failing Region 15
- By News-Times Media
- Published 11/23/2006
- Daily EdNews , Curriculum , K-12
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Now in its fourth year in Region 15 elementary schools, the
Trailblazers math program has obvious flaws.More and more of our nation's parents and educators, once in favor of "progressive," concept-based mathematics, are doing a complete about-face and insisting on a return to basic skill-teaching after what seems now to be a botched experiment.
Trailblazers math program has obvious flaws.More and more of our nation's parents and educators, once in favor of "progressive,
