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Merit pay; eliminating tenure; new teacher evaluations — how are school, district and state policies affecting how educators and their students perform?

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October 17, 2013

Anatomy Of An English Class: How The Common Core Is Shaping Instruction For One Miami Teacher

Editor’s note: This story was authored by Sarah Carr for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI—English instructor Lois Seaman often speaks bluntly to her middle-school students about the increased expectations they will face under the new Common Core curriculum standards. “It’s like you are looking at this under a microscope; glean all you can from this text,” […]

October 16, 2013

How Florida Reading Lists Are Changing For New Common Standards

Editor’s note: This story was written by Sarah Carr for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI—In Chris Kirchner’s freshman English classes at Coral Reef Senior High School, novels like “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Great Gatsby” have been squeezed off the syllabus to make room for nonfiction texts including “The Glass Castle” and “How to Re-Imagine […]

October 8, 2013

National Survey Finds Teachers Bullish About Common Standards

Almost three-quarters of teachers in the Common Core State Standards subjects of English and math think the standards will have a positive effect on students, according to a new survey sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Overall, more than half of teachers think the standards, adopted by Florida and 44 other states, will […]

September 10, 2013

Classroom Contemplations: Why One Teacher Left The Classroom To Work With Death Row Inmates

Editor’s note: Names of teachers and students have been changed. Marie Roberts is the kind of person most education policy-makers dream of attracting to the teaching profession. She intelligent, sensitive and able to handle a classroom full of teenagers. She is herself a public school graduate and an Ivy League-educated woman of color. She’s also […]

September 5, 2013

Will New Common Standards Mean Less Teaching To The Test?

One of the big questions as Florida and 44 other states transition to new education standards and new tests over the next few years is how much time will teachers have to spend teaching to the test? Teachers complain that they can only spend classroom time on items which will appear on the Florida Comprehensive […]

August 30, 2013

Classroom Contemplations: Teacher Left Because “It Was Hard To Hone My Craft”

Editor’s note: Names of teachers and students have been changed. How often do budding investment bankers leave the field in their mid-20s to try their hand at teaching? Not often. And that’s only one of the things that makes Henry Rodriguez special. We met him earlier in this series as he helped a disengaged student […]

August 23, 2013

Feedback Loop: What Readers Think Of Common Core Standards

All week we’ve been posting answers from teachers to three questions about the Common Core State Standards (Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, part 3 is here and a superintendent is here). One criticism we’ve received from readers is that no teacher is going to bash the standards or training they received if […]

Three Questions For A Superintendent About Common Core

Here’s another round of Q & A with educators about the switch to Common Core standards. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, and part 3 is here. Name: Joseph Joyner Job: Superintendent of the St. Johns County School District Q: How well prepared do you feel for the Common Core? A: Better than a […]

August 22, 2013

Three Questions For Teachers About Common Core Standards, Part 3

Here’s another round of Q & A with teachers about the switch to Common Core State Standards. part 1 is here and part 2 is here. Name: Teresa Stillman School: Cannella Elementary in Hillsborough County Teaches: Fifth Grade Experience: 17 years Q: How well prepared do you feel for the switch to Common Core? A: I […]

August 21, 2013

Three Questions For Teachers About Common Core Standards, Part 2

As we’ve attended summer training sessions for teachers on new Common Core State Standards, we’ve been asking teachers the same three questions. Florida is one of 45 states to fully adopt the Common Core State Standards, which outline what students are expected to know in math and English at the end of each grade. Every […]

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