Glenwood Springs Middle School science teacher Rob Buirgy knows teaching the scientific method to seventh-graders can be a challenge.Students must grasp each step, from hypotheses to conclusion.

It’s called standards-based education, and although it represents major change in decades of traditional educational theory, the idea is simple – making student learning the number one priority.

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

This week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Quality Counts 2006, the 10th edition of its annual report on the condition of education across the states. Taking an ...

California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing approved long-awaited revised Standards for the Teaching Profession on Thursday that emphasize culturally responsive teaching, social-emotional ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS – While headlines around the country have referred to the move toward standards-based education in public schools as a “revolution,” the Roaring Fork School District Re-1 views it ...

Apr. 13—Alette HahnHansen repeats a short phrase to keep herself motivated: "Oscar, doctor, president." The 17-year-old, a junior at Santa Fe High School, hopes to win an Oscar, earn a doctorate and ...

The Warrensville Heights City School District is the latest local school district to transition from letter grades to a standards-based grading system intended to wring personality issues and ...

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A video to increase public awareness on standards based education has been released. A spokeswoman from the Ministry of Education said the video was part of the Ministry and Department of Education’s ...