Research & Resources
Reframing Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Howard Gardner discusses the place of truth, beauty, and goodness in education.What if the Secret to Success is Failure?
Paul Tough describes three individuals’ attempts to determine which characteristics are most important to postsecondary success and how to teach them at the grade school level.
NGSS: Classroom Sample Assessment Tasks
The Classroom Sample Tasks blend content, practices, and concepts from both the NGSS and the CCSS. Teachers across the disciplines have collaborated to write sample tasks, which are the result of a vision of integrating science, engineering, and mathematics for…
Inside Mathematics: Performance Assessment Tasks
The Inside Mathematics website hosts grade-level formative performance assessment tasks with accompanying scoring rubrics and discussion of student work samples.Reaching the Goal: The Applicability and Importance of the Common Core State Standards to College and Career Readiness
The CCSS gave states an opportunity to voluntarily adopt common expectations in English language arts and literacy, and mathematics. With common standards in place, states could more easily and efficiently share best practices in curriculum and assessments, while still retaining…
When Nice Won’t Suffice
Elisa MacDonald asserts that professional learning communities must be able to tackle issues and give and receive constructive criticism for there to be any real improvement within a school. She offers strategies for addressing a “culture of nice” that prevents…Five Questions That Will Improve Your Teaching
Teacher Larry Ferlazzo shares his list of questions he uses to self-examine and improve his teaching.Distilling the Wisdom of C.E.O.’s
Adam Bryant interviewed over seventy chief executives and other leaders to determine five essential qualities that C.E.O’s share and look for in new hires.Creative Leadership | Sir Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson discusses the roles of leadership in building creativity, innovation, and leadership in the workplace.Oregon Reading Standards Verification Technical Report
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) conducted an achievement standards verification process for the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills for Reading on January 19-21, 2011. The research-based Bookmark Procedure was used to recommend achievement standards (cut scores) for Grades…
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