Mythbusting Monday is a series of blog posts where we invite different faculty members from the College of Education to discuss education myths and how or what we are doing to combat the myth, fix the myth, etc. We want our faculty to have a voice…
Mythbusting Monday – High school exit exams and “college readiness”
Mythbusting Monday is a series of blog posts where we invite different faculty members from the College of Education to discuss education myths and how or what we are doing to combat the myth, fix the myth, etc. We want our faculty to have a voice…
Transforming Education – March 2015
Reinventing “Rigor” in Education A Guest Column by Professor Cathy Hartman I have been troubled by the word rigor, often used today to describe something lacking in contemporary education. Standardized testing of students can supposedly expose and even correct non-rigorous…
Mythbusting Monday – Class size
Mythbusting Monday is a series of blog posts where we invite different faculty members from the College of Education to discuss education myths and how or what we are doing to combat the myth, fix the myth, etc. We want our faculty to have a voice…
Transforming Education – February 2015
Let’s Move Beyond the Headshaking The news is full of stories about education. Articles that discuss teacher regulations or programs that tout sending underprepared teachers in to work with our most vulnerable children are in newspapers and blogs everywhere. We…