You’ve heard about all the disadvantages of teaching to standardized tests or assessments. Some educators use the content and skills that will be on a standardized test to plan classroom instruction. It narrows instruction to only what’s on the test. Once instruction is focused on the test, the creativity and dynamism of teaching is reduced. Read More
So you got the funding. Terrific. Now to find 30 middle school students who want to spend six weeks in the Summer writing poetry on campus. No, you said in the proposal that you’d get 40 students. And that they’d be from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM with a B average in math. Doesn’t matter how Read More