School Crossing: The Intersection of Education and Society

Provocative commentary on competing educational stakeholders and how their entrenched interests collide to obstruct the goal of world-class education in America. Includes teacher training and quality, curriculum design, teaching resources, Japanese education models, book reviews, practical teaching tips, more.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Which Kind of Teacher are You?

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That is what the book Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners says there are. The three kinds of teachers are 1. theoretic...
Monday, November 19, 2007

Japanese Schools are More Homogeneous than US Schools.

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There are many reasons why Japanese secondary schools display a much more uniform high quality than US secondary schools, including, but not...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Teachers Are the Most Important Variable!

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Plenty of PhD types have made their careers researching and reporting on what is wrong with our education system and how to fix it. Most res...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

The Misplaced Fascination with Technology

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Educators are fascinated with technology, particularly calculators. Randall Charles, in the May/June 1999 issue of Math Education Dialogues ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Place Value and Algebraic Thinking

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Surprisingly, an important foundation to algebraic thinking is the ability to simply read a number correctly. Teachers often blow off readi...
Monday, November 12, 2007

The Chocolate Factory: Place Value in Algebraic Thinking

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Even good math students may begin studying algebra with deficiencies in their understanding of place value. The following activity offers mi...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Vital Place of Place Value

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Perhaps one of the most important foundational concepts in mathematics is place value. As the Massachusetts Department of Education rightly ...
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