December - 2014

Race, Courage, and Teaching Tolerance

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason...

Save the Date: February 5, 2015, CEI STEAM Learning Showcase

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math (STEAM) Leaning Showcase Explore, Learn, Share and Collaborate Time: 4:30 pm ‘“ 6:30 pm...

Innumeracy and Integrating Math across the Curriculum

By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason The old patterns of isolating math instruction, over a gradual period of time, have...

In Ferguson People Are Walking the Walk, But Are They Talking the Talk?

By Elijah Mercer, Education Policy and Communication Intern ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ is the rallying chant behind protests, riots, and...

Ebola, 5 Million Out-of-School Children, and Instability

By Danait Berhe, CEI Intern A ten year-old, Amos Johnson, who is in second grade, at James. E. Green Elementary School in Logan Town,...

Ebola, Courage, and Social Responsibility

‘What keeps me coming to work every day is encouragement and motivation from my staff. We share jokes and we laugh. And the patients,...

CEI “Guidelines for 21st Century Technology Use” Competition

By Christine Mason Runners up: 2nd Place: $50 gift card; 3rd place: $25 gift card. Early in 2014 we introduced CEI ‘s 21st Century...

Pedagogical Shifts in Common Core Mathematics

By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern In the past, the general emphasis in math has been on the breadth of the content, not the depth. Common...

Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education

By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern Up and Down Battle. While Arizona has adopted the Common Core Standards,...

2015 Tax Deductible Donations to CEI

December 2015. CEI needs your help to continue our work. For the next month, CEI will be able to match donations up to $2,000’”dollar for...