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    Water Safety and Risks
    Center for Educational Improvement
    • Oct 7, 2016
    • 2 min

    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...
    Back to the States
    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...
    Presidential Candidates, Part 2
    Center for Educational Improvement
    • Sep 27, 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?...
    Candidates Views on Education
    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...
    Common Core and Florida: Tests, Security and Changing Standards
    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...
    Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
    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...
    Innumeracy and Integrating Math across the Curriculum
    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...
    Pedagogical Shifts in Common Core Mathematics
    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...
    Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
    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,...
    Curiously Common: A Blog Series Keeping You Curious about the Common Nature of Education
    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...
    Many Parents, Teachers Think Common Core Testing Is Overwhelming
    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...
    Arne Duncan Offers Insight into Challenges of Testing
    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...
    CEI Visits Chesterfield Academy
    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...
    Ethnic Minority Students Become Majority in the Classroom
    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...
    Your Journey this Year
    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...
    Arts Integration
    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...
    Heart Centered Common Core Book List
    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...
    Montessori and the CCSS or Montessori vs. the CCSS?
    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...
    The Common Core or the Common Chore?
    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...
    NAESP Academic Rigor Webinar Thurs. Feb. 6
    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,...
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