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Authentic Education Team

A cardinal principle in aiming at understanding is that understanding requires different pedagogy than acquisition of […]
My daughter prompted today’s column on the classic texts every educator should have read. In a […]
In my previous post on standards, I pointed out that though we talk of “a” standard, […]
Stephen Lazar has written a perfectly nice article on how to use good questions and inquiry […]
A recent piece in Education Week on the need to ensure that Standards are pegged in […]
The mystery: the French eat and drink everything, yet have lower heart disease rates. And are […]
Arguably one of the more difficult aspects in teaching for understanding is to decide when to […]
A report just released by the NY Regents in response to recent testing scandals proposes a […]
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 […]