We spent a lot of time this summer watching and listening as Florida school districts trained teachers about what to expect when the state makes the full switch to new education standards next year. Florida is one of 45 states to fully adopt the Common Core State Standards, which outline what students are expected to […]
āBoring.ā Ā “Wah wah wah.” āMonotone.ā āConfusing.ā That’s how math teachers training in Common Core standards this week near Pensacola described their own childhood math lessons. These teachers are learning how to make math an interactive, engaging experience for students under the new Common Core State Standards. They were led by Ilea Faircloth, a staff […]
The New York Times takes a look at why teachers have a tougher time improving reading performance than math performance. In part, it’s because math lessons are more discrete. A quiz can tell you which math concepts a student is having problems with, as a teacher notes in the story. But reading builds on many […]
Yesterday we wrote about a National Center on Education and the Economy study which argued students were learning a lot of math they won’t end up using in their career. And schools were not spending enough time on more fundamental concepts in elementary and middle school which were more likely to be used by workers. […]
Community college students are needlessly assigned to remedial math classes to learn lessons they won’t use during their studies, according to new research from a Washington, D.C. group. And the study also found that many high school graduates are not learning subjects they will need to use in their careers. The study was produced by […]
Jamille Cunninghamās primary learning tool in her remedial reading course at St. Petersburg College is a computer program. When Cunningham, 20, started the course, the program diagnosed her as weak in all but a handful of reading skills. It then directed her to a series of learning modules focused on skills she needed to improve, […]
In the 2010-11 school year, some 125,042 Florida college students needed to take a remedial math class, more than double the number requiring remedial classes in reading (54,489) or writing (50,906)
About half a million people from around the world have been tuning in online to the math lessons of a Florida teacher, according to the Sun Sentinel. Rob Tarrou, a teacher atĀ St. Petersburg High School, recordsĀ lessons on algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and other math subjects under his YouTube channel “Tarrou’sĀ Chalk Talk.” Some videos have more […]
Is there a growing push to trim advanced math requirements for students who won’t use the lessons in “the real world?” City University of New York political science professor Andrew Hacker authored a Sunday op-ed in the New York Times which questions whether U.S. schools should require students to pass algebra in order to graduate. […]
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