Water Safety and Risks
By Brogan Murphy, CEI Intern Access to Clean Water. When you thought of safety and security, water safety, the consistent and reliable...
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Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 11, 2015
- 2 min
Back to the States
By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director We recommend you click on the links to listen as you read. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 26, 2015
- 5 min
Presidential Candidates, Part 2
In Donald Kim’s last blog entry, he covered the education interests of possible presidential candidates. But what do we (CEI) advocate?...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 9, 2015
- 3 min
Candidates Views on Education
The 2016 presidential election is not far off. And with the primaries and caucuses approaching within a matter of months, now is a good...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jul 3, 2015
- 3 min
Common Core and Florida: Tests, Security and Changing Standards
By Joshua Hassell, CEI Intern Florida, historically a leader in educational reform, might have slightly different concerns about Common...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jan 9, 2015
- 3 min
Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern The main issues with Common Core in Arkansas are nothing new. A lack of...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 18, 2014
- 3 min
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 8, 2014
- 3 min
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...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Dec 6, 2014
- 4 min
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,...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Nov 18, 2014
- 3 min
Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern Since 2010, 46 states have adopted the Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCSS). Of America’s 50 states, only...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Nov 5, 2014
- 4 min
Many Parents, Teachers Think Common Core Testing Is Overwhelming
By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern The debate concerning the implementation of Common Core testing standards is now shifting from policy makers...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Oct 23, 2014
- 3 min
Arne Duncan Offers Insight into Challenges of Testing
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern In a recent Washington Post opinion piece by Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education calls for a balanced...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Oct 3, 2014
- 2 min
CEI Visits Chesterfield Academy
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern Last month, the CEI team of Dr. Chris Mason, Liz Parry, and Sue Mullane visited Chesterfield Academy to offer...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Sep 10, 2014
- 2 min
Ethnic Minority Students Become Majority in the Classroom
By Nick Jones, CEI Intern This fall marks the first school year that ethnic and racial minority students are the majority in public...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Aug 21, 2014
- 2 min
Your Journey this Year
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” John O’Donohue By Christine Mason, CEI...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min
Arts Integration
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Arts Education has frequently taken a backseat to the concepts of 21st century learning, something, and...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Jun 9, 2014
- 2 min
Heart Centered Common Core Book List
By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern From Kathleen Odean, a past chair of the prestigious Newbery Award Committee, comes recommendations for...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Mar 18, 2014
- 3 min
Montessori and the CCSS or Montessori vs. the CCSS?
Montessori, the Method. The Montessori Method is based on the idea that each child must be permitted to control his or her own learning...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Mar 14, 2014
- 3 min
The Common Core or the Common Chore?
Are your curricula aligned? That’s a lot of pressure for teachers! They’ve got to scrape together materials, which may or may not reflect...
Center for Educational Improvement
- Feb 5, 2014
- 1 min
NAESP Academic Rigor Webinar Thurs. Feb. 6
Webinar Description. The NAESP Rigor seminar was developed with an eye toward providing information about rigor in the classroom,...