When you wake up next Tuesday, July 19th you'll only have to wait until 1 P.M. Eastern Time for the announcement from the National Academy Sciences the publication of A New Framework for K-12 Science Education. You'll be able to access the framework here after the...
Are you surprised? You probably know that Atlanta Schools are in the middle of a test cheating scandal in which student bubble answer sheets were changed by erasing wrong answers to right answers. Did the students learn, in spite of some teachers' and administrators'...
I've read the complete report on the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) CRCT testing scandal. It's hard to believe that there was such widespread activity in which student answers on the state's CRCT bubble sheets were changed. Why? That is the central question of this...
There were some interesting resources identified in this Summer's edition of The Science Teacher. In a column entitled Science 2.0, the authors bring our attention to The Synapse, a network connecting hundreds of biology teachers worldwide. Developed by Sean Nash just...
There were some interesting resources identified in this Summer's edition of The Science Teacher. In a column entitled Science 2.0, the authors bring our attention to The Synapse, a network connecting hundreds of biology teachers worldwide. Developed by Sean Nash just...
Snagfilms is a great resource for video, documentaries, and films. Here is one that long-time mac users might enjoy. I started using a Mac in 1985, and last month a new i-Mac with a very big screen arrived on my desk. The difference in screen size between my first Mac...
