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Highlights for High School

Highlights for High School

Transpose: Your Solutions. Your Way. Explain Everything™ Interactive Whiteboard Bytesize Science Welcome to Bytesize Science, an educational, entertaining podcast for young listeners from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. Posted every Monday, it translates scientific discoveries from ACS' 36 scientific journals into intriguing stories for kids of all ages about science, medicine, energy, food, and much more. Claim this podcast Remove this podcast Play Latest Episode: Title: Is Aspartame Safe?

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Eduwonk Education Week By Peter Greene June 10, 2015 at 8:41 AM Balancing the Equation: Supply and Demand in Tomorrow's School Choice Marketplaces offers a more nuanced view of a charter-choice landscape than the freemarket acolytes at AEI have presented in the past, but it still reads like an exercise in unicorn farming. By Peter Greene June 3, 2015 at 11:49 AM It's time for the beginning of summer break. By Peter Greene May 31, 2015 at 9:30 AM Charters, data, oxymorons, writing, Wisconsin suckage, sad cybers, and more kerfluffling in New Jersey. By Peter Greene May 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM Teaching is a relationship, and the first rule of relationships is that you have to show up. By Peter Greene May 24, 2015 at 9:02 AM Charter boosting in PA, discord in NJ, and poker for the rich and famous-ish in NY. By Peter Greene May 20, 2015 at 8:19 AM You cannot shame people into excellence. By Peter Greene May 17, 2015 at 10:29 AM Charter fraud, Arne speaks on Pre-K, testing, and the hot new Honesty Gap!

Shadow Puppet App for iPhone & iPad Pixntell EDU Common Core Watch Since we at Fordham began reviewing state academic standards in 1997, we have understood—and made clear—that standards alone are insufficient to drive improvements in student achievement. Standards describe the destination, but they don’t chart the journey for leaders, teachers, or schools, which means that for standards to have any impact on what students actually learn, they must influence curriculum decisions, assessments, and accountability. Educators intuitively understand this, but not all policy makers and pundits appear to. The need for standards-aligned curricula is undoubtedly the most cited challenge for states, districts, and schools implementing the Common Core. Yet five years into that implementation, teachers still report scrambling to find high-quality, standards-aligned instructional materials. Despite publishers’ claims, there is a dearth of programs that are truly aligned to the demands of the Common Core for content and rigor. In Uncommonly Engaging?

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