Faced with shrinking enrollments and consolidation pressure, the principal of a small Vermont central school has opted to become that state’s first public Core Knowledge school. Barnard Central School Principal Anne Koop has won approval for a plan to turn her school into a magnet that she hopes will attract tuition-paying students from outside her district, in addition to local kids. She’s also adding a Pre-K program, a rarity in Vermont.
“It will be like a private school education, but at an equal-access, public school price,” she tells her local paper. Koop, who noted that the Core Knowledge program has been “close to my heart for years,” has only one question for herself: “Why didn’t I think of this before?”
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Margaret Spellings
Madame Secretary demands all states use the same federal formula to calculate graduation and dropout rates.
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Machiavelli
Who knew The Prince was a classroom management manual for teachers?
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The Toronto School Board
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Teachers College
Major TC study discovers that effective teaching — er, I mean “proximal assessment for learner diagnosis” — helps kids learn.
A fabulous example of kids working in self-directed groups and using cooperative learning strategies to solve an authentic, real-world problem right in their classroom.
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