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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?

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Though they may not usually call themselves therapists, its relatively common for instructional coaches to think about their work in this way, according to DeAnn Huinker, a professor of mathematics education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker.

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One state tried algebra for all eighth graders. It hasn’t gone well

The Hechinger Report

In 2006, a state education bill required for the first time that the states eighth graders take Algebra I, starting in the 2010-11 school year. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade. Department of Education.) Minnesota legislators took notice. Today its about 1.5

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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More than five years after adopting Common Core, Kentucky’s black-white achievement gap is widening

The Hechinger Report

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Related: Common Core ignores underprivileged students — and testing will lead to more achievement gaps.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards

The Hechinger Report

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. In this Thursday, Oct.

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How play is making a comeback in Kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. Kindergarteners must be able to write several sentences about a specific topic and draw a related picture, while pre-Common Core, they were only expected to draw a picture and write a single sentence.