You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. I’ve been thinking a lot about author and productivity consultant Denis Waitley’s words as the Common Core State Standards take hold. When I ...

Unless states move quickly to fill the void between academic standards and their use in classrooms, current efforts to raise student achievement could fizzle. That was the message of a two-day ...

Assessment is a ubiquitous part of classroom life. Most exchanges between teacher and students are an occasion for considering the quality of student work. Often informal, assessment is a natural ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Small changes in language and classroom routines can increase connection and improve learning for young students.

When schools issue new standards, due process—not politics—determines fairness. Here’s what guardrails should look ...

This article originally appeared on StateImpact Pennsylvania. A random act of teaching. That’s how Jeff Remington describes the state of climate change education in Pennsylvania today. “There is no ...

Backers of new learning standards for young children urged Louisiana's top school board to give the changes final approval despite ongoing criticism that the benchmarks need more public input. Jan ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — In a marathon, eight-hour meeting on Oct. 20, Utah State Board of Education member Jennie Earl, made motion after motion, to make big changes to a re-write of Utah’s social ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Airasian, P. W. ( 1991). Classroom assessment. New York: McGraw Hill. American ...