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Chris Harrow

Uneducated guesses: Reforming education by committee rather than evidence | Get Schooled - 1 views

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    Another article on evidence-less reform.
Chris Harrow

Some responses to replies to my posts on curriculum reform « Granted, but… - 0 views

  • The goal is always to emulate best practice.
  • The content does not determine the flow, the goals of meaning and transfer do. But content matters; it can’t just be projects. It takes artful design.
Chris Harrow

Education Week: Concern Abounds Over Teachers' Preparedness for Standards - 0 views

  • A quiet, sub-rosa fear is brewing among supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative: that the standards will die the slow death of poor implementation in K-12 classrooms.
  • By any accounting, the challenge of getting the nation's 3.2 million K-12 public school teachers ready to teach to the standards is enormous.
Chris Harrow

Pre-Calc Post-Calc « Suburban Lion's Blog - 1 views

  • I petitioned my counselor to let me skip Algebra II and Pre-Calc to go straight into AP Calculus.
  • A common problem throughout math education is the "When am I ever going to use this?" attitude. I already knew where I was going to use the math I was learning.
Chris Harrow

Alfred professor takes the ouch out of calculus - Hornell, NY - Hornell Evening Tribune - 0 views

  • Petrillo says he was disheartened by the difficulty students had understanding calculus and tried to find a way to teach the material better, without dumbing it down.
Chris Harrow

Professional blog | 21st Century Educator - 0 views

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    From outside the US, but this article (and its link to its opposing article) does lay out one aspect of the mathematics debate that has been raging in the US for decades
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