Common Core Survey: Teachers Feel More Prepared but Less Enthusiastic
To produce the third edition of 'Primary Sources: America’s Teachers on Teaching in an Era of Change,' Scholastic followed up with more than 1,600 public school teachers who had participated in the 'Primary Sources' survey in July 2013.
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Ashlee Cornett, the librarian at Parkway Middle School in Osceola County, Fla., uses a game-show style platform to encourage her students not just to answer questions about what they have read, but also to discuss why their answer is correct.
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According to a new study by the American Institutes for Research, the states reporting the highest percentage of proficient students have the lowest performance standards.
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The United States federal government is making a push to train, place and retain competent leaders in an effort to turn around some of the country's lowest-performing schools.
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