Strauss: How much time will new Common Core tests take kids to finish? Quite a lot.
Q) How much time will it take for students to complete some of the new Common Core standardized math and English Language Arts tests? A) A lot. One of the two multi-state consortia that have been — with some $360 million in federal funds — developing new Common Core standardized tests for use this school year just announced how many hours of testing time schools that are giving the PARCC exam sho
Strauss: Why college freshmen need to take Emotions 101
Too many college students face challenges for which they are emotionally ill-equipped to handle. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In this piece, from OpEd Project’s Yale Public Voices Fellowship program, two mental health experts explain how colleges and universities can better deal with the problem of student anxiety and depression. It was written by Dia
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 9-27-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetWhy we can’t reform literacy and math all at onceSchool “reform” is hardly a new phenomenon in the public school system, with decades of efforts to improve reading and math scores. Why haven’t all these efforts met expectations? Here’s one explanation, from Andy Hargreaves, the Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College