Five Common Core Strategies for Parents

Five Common Core Strategies for Parents

Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, were designed to prepare students for college and workplace readiness. Although the CCSS ensure that K-12 students across the country study the same rigorous curricula, states have the option to implement the curriculum of their...

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All Hands on Deck: Activating the Common Core

All Hands on Deck: Activating the Common Core

The Common Core is far from business-as-usual for our nation’s educators, which means we’ll need more than traditional strategies to implement these standards on the ground. The Common Core is far from business-as-usual for our nation’s educators, which means we’ll...

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Daring To Make Dance a Priority in Education

Daring To Make Dance a Priority in Education

When public K-12 schools are pressured to decrease costs and devote more time to standardized testing, arts programs are one of the first to be cut. Despite a nationally adopted education agenda that seeks to promote creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration...

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Bodies in Motion: Video Shouts Out to Open Education

Bodies in Motion: Video Shouts Out to Open Education

“Open Ed” is a thirty-second video, that stitches together fragments of physical abandon captured at ISKME’s Big Ideas Fest 2012. Since 2009, hundreds of educators, students, entrepreneurs, researchers, philanthropists, and education technologists have attended the...

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