K-12 teachers of history need close-reading skills
Over the weekend, the American Historical Association Council Endorsed the National Council for History Education’s Statement on Teacher Qualifications. Among the better parts of the statement is developing historical “habits of mind,” including an understanding of how to read and utilize primary sources. That phrase came from the K-5 teacher guidelines. (The 6-12 guidelines insert in […]
No one knows NCLB’s effects
In its new report, Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind?, the Center on Education Policy provides the obvious answer: No one knows. There is some evidence of increasing achievement on some [later: many state test] measures, but attributing that to NCLB is foolhardy. With such ambiguous […]