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Authentic Education Team

Here’s a stunner from the weekend New York Times, in a front-page article, no less: “schools […]
Yet another document related to national standards has been released: the SMARTER balanced assessment consortium report. […]
I received a nice query by email the other day and I thought readers might find […]
In a recent blog post I commented on my dismay at the result about teaching in […]
This year’s annual Kappan survey of the American public on their views about schools and education […]
As I have said numerous times in conferences and on this blog, I am a fan […]
The following is an edited version of a post I made on John Merrow’s blog in […]
When I was a Varsity soccer coach, we spent a very busy week before school started […]
In many large districts there are now so-called pacing guides provided with or within the curriculum. […]
All of the recent discussion about curriculum and the Common Core Standards seems to me to […]