Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Years ago, I coached my 8-year-old son’s basketball team. A few games into the season, a parent berated me for not ...

It seems to me that there is a very easy way to obviate some of the problems with the No Child Left Behind Act, and that is to simply redefine the notion of “grade level.” Why shouldn’t we determine ...

They read a book quietly under their desks, pester the teacher for extra credit, or, perhaps, they simply check out and act up. Every classroom has a few overachievers who perform above their grade ...

Some had finished all the material pegged to their grade level months ago and had moved on, while others were taking more time. Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field ...