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March 2011 | Volume 68 | Number 6
What Students Need to Learn
Feature Articles
Perspectives / The Core Question
Marge Scherer
Listen here.
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Double Take
Reviews, research, and relevant reads.
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What Students Really Need to Learn
Lynne Munson
Concentrating on content is common practice in most high-achieving countries.
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Building on the Common Core
David T. Conley
The Common Core State Standards offer an opportunity to shift away from shallow test prep to a focus on complex cognitive skills.
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The Humanities: Why Such a Hard Sell?
David J. Ferrero
The economic aims of education should not obscure the personal and civic purposes of schooling.
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A Diploma Worth Having
Grant Wiggins
Why we should abolish lock-step requirements and establish a forward-looking, client-centered curriculum.
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Ethics: From Thought to Action
Robert J. Sternberg
Ethical action is a 21st century skill deserving of a place in schools.
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What At-Risk Readers Need
Richard L. Allington
We know that high-quality instruction is the key: Why aren't we opening the door?
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Worthy Texts: Who Decides?
Barry Gilmore
Standards have a blind spot if they deemphasize students' role in choosing what they want to read.
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Let Strategies Serve Literature
Diana Senechal
When literature is subordinated to strategies, students lose the meaning of the reading experience.
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Making STEM Real
Gary Hoachlander and Dave Yanofsky
Promising programs break down the isolation of science and math by connecting core academics with challenging professional and technical fields.
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Knowing Your Learning Target
Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart and Beverly A. Long
No matter what we want students to learn, not much will happen until they know what to aim for.
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In Defense of Mathematical Foundations
W. Stephen Wilson
To succeed at college-level math, facility with basic arithmetic algorithms is essential.
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Lessons That Connect
Young Imm Kang Song
Korean youngsters combine arts education, character education, environmental education, geography, and more.
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Departments
Research Says… / High-Stakes Testing Narrows the Curriculum
Jane L. David
The content of tests becomes the learning goal for students.
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Art and Science of Teaching / Relating to Students: It's What You Do That Counts
Robert J. Marzano
Teachers' actions—not their feelings—influence students' perception that their teachers care.
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Digitally Speaking / Becoming Digitally Resilient
William M. Ferriter
Tools that disappear, blocked websites, failing services—getting used to unpredictability is part of the job.
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Principal Connection / Who Were You?
Thomas R. Hoerr
How might your past influence the way you teach and lead?
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Book Review
Joseph A. Henderson
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
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ASCD Community in Action
News and resources from ASCD.
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Catching Up with Common Core
David Griffith
A status report on legislative and advocacy matters.
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Among Colleagues / How Can We Promote Teacher Collaboration?
Question by Andre Potvin. Responses in print and online by Amy Lockhart, Patsy Pouiller, Kimberly Kappler Hewitt, Doreen Knuth, and Misty M. LaCour
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Online Only
A Word for the Words
Camille Blachowicz and Peter Fisher
Vocabulary study is an essential in the early grades, but which word lists need to be taught?
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The Great Debate
H. Michael Hartoonian, Richard D. Van Scotter and William E. White
Law vs. ethics, freedom vs. equality, unity vs. diversity, private wealth vs. common wealth—students need to understand four value tensions that underlie historic events.
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Teaching Science Literacy
Maria Grant and Diane Lapp
How to foster a complex understanding of compelling everyday science.
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Staying Civil
Wayne Journell
Political tolerance can be taught—but only if supported through practice.
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More Than Meets the Eye
Bonnie B. Rushlow
A good visual arts program is the hub of a top-notch school.
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EL Study Guide
Teresa Preston
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Inservice Guest Blogger: David J. Ferrero
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EL Group
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