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12-9-13 THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG Insights on Getting Students to Mastery — Whole Child Education

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Insights on Getting Students to Mastery
What does it mean to master a subject? And how can schools help students get there? The December 2013/January 2014 issue of Educational Leadership focuses on how educators can help students achieve mastery as they learn. But what does mastery mean? And how can teachers be sure students have achieved it? Authors in this issue consider these questions from a variety of angles, offering definitions o


  
12-6-13 THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG Thoughts from #PISA2012, Take Two — Whole Child Education
Thoughts from #PISA2012, Take Two — Whole Child Education: Thoughts from #PISA2012, Take TwoPISA assesses the extent to which 15-year-old students have acquired key knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in modern societies. The results should be used as one measure of a country's overall evaluation of its education system and not serve as a league table. Yet information an