Deliberate Practice Spells Success: Why Grittier Competitors Triumph at the National Spelling Bee Ω The expert performance framework distinguishes between deliberate practice and less effective practice activities. This longitudinal study is the first to use this framework to understand how children improve in an academic skill. Specifically, the ...
Cutting to the bone: How the economic crisis affects schools Ω Although the recession technically ended in 2009, district budgets are not expected to regain their pre-recession (2008) funding levels until late in the decade, for a number of reasons: - Reduced local revenues from real estate taxes. Home prices ...
Far Too Many States Are Allowing High School Science Teachers To Teach Subjects They May Know Very Little About Ω National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has released a report, THE ALL-PURPOSE SCIENCE TEACHER, revealing a little-known aspect of “the STEM crisis,” usually recognized as a shortage of publicschool teachers in the areas of science, technology, ...
BUMPING HR: GIVING PRINCIPALS MORE SAY OVER STAFFING Ω The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has released a policy brief, BUMPING HR: GIVING PRINCIPALS MORE SAY OVER STAFFING that identifies the contractual and institutional obstacles that stand in the way of principals having the authority to ...
Literary Study in Grades 9, 10, And 11: A National Survey, Ω A newly released study by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) strongly suggests that two factors—a fragmented English curriculum and a neglect of close reading—may explain why the reading skills of American high school ...