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David Hilton

Literacy Creep at The Core Knowledge Blog - 0 views

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    An article in last week's Education Week looks at the increasingly common practice of reading aloud to middle and high school students. In discussing the practice with Mary Ann Zehr (I'm quoted briefly in the piece) I made the point that while there is certainly nothing wrong with reading out loud to teenagers, it is symptomatic of what I call "literacy creep" - the tendency of elementary school-style instructional techniques to find their way deeper into K-12 education across all content areas.
David Hilton

Common Core - Working to Bring Exciting, Comprehensive, Content-Rich Instruction to Eve... - 0 views

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    We believe that a child who graduates from high school without an understanding of culture, the arts, history, literature, civics, and language has in fact been left behind. So to improve education in America, we're promoting programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences.
David Hilton

Learning Styles Re-evaluated | Psych Central News - 1 views

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    A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles.
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