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March 2011
What Students Need to Learn

March 2011 | Volume 68 | Number 6

What Students Need to Learn


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Perspectives / The Core Question

Marge Scherer

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Double Take

Reviews, research, and relevant reads.

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What Students Really Need to Learn

Lynne Munson

Concentrating on content is common practice in most high-achieving countries.

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Building on the Common Core

David T. Conley

The Common Core State Standards offer an opportunity to shift away from shallow test prep to a focus on complex cognitive skills.

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The Humanities: Why Such a Hard Sell?

David J. Ferrero

The economic aims of education should not obscure the personal and civic purposes of schooling.

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A Diploma Worth Having

Grant Wiggins

Why we should abolish lock-step requirements and establish a forward-looking, client-centered curriculum.

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Ethics: From Thought to Action

Robert J. Sternberg

Ethical action is a 21st century skill deserving of a place in schools.

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What At-Risk Readers Need

Richard L. Allington

We know that high-quality instruction is the key: Why aren't we opening the door?

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Worthy Texts: Who Decides?

Barry Gilmore

Standards have a blind spot if they deemphasize students' role in choosing what they want to read.

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Let Strategies Serve Literature

Diana Senechal

When literature is subordinated to strategies, students lose the meaning of the reading experience.

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Making STEM Real

Gary Hoachlander and Dave Yanofsky

Promising programs break down the isolation of science and math by connecting core academics with challenging professional and technical fields.

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Knowing Your Learning Target

Connie M. Moss, Susan M. Brookhart and Beverly A. Long

No matter what we want students to learn, not much will happen until they know what to aim for.

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In Defense of Mathematical Foundations

W. Stephen Wilson

To succeed at college-level math, facility with basic arithmetic algorithms is essential.

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Lessons That Connect

Young Imm Kang Song

Korean youngsters combine arts education, character education, environmental education, geography, and more.

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Departments

Research Says… / High-Stakes Testing Narrows the Curriculum

Jane L. David

The content of tests becomes the learning goal for students.

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Art and Science of Teaching / Relating to Students: It's What You Do That Counts

Robert J. Marzano

Teachers' actions—not their feelings—influence students' perception that their teachers care.

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Digitally Speaking / Becoming Digitally Resilient

William M. Ferriter

Tools that disappear, blocked websites, failing services—getting used to unpredictability is part of the job.

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Principal Connection / Who Were You?

Thomas R. Hoerr

How might your past influence the way you teach and lead?

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Book Review

Joseph A. Henderson

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford

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ASCD Community in Action

News and resources from ASCD.

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Catching Up with Common Core

David Griffith

A status report on legislative and advocacy matters.

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Among Colleagues / How Can We Promote Teacher Collaboration?

Question by Andre Potvin. Responses in print and online by Amy Lockhart, Patsy Pouiller, Kimberly Kappler Hewitt, Doreen Knuth, and Misty M. LaCour

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A Word for the Words

Camille Blachowicz and Peter Fisher

Vocabulary study is an essential in the early grades, but which word lists need to be taught?

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The Great Debate

H. Michael Hartoonian, Richard D. Van Scotter and William E. White

Law vs. ethics, freedom vs. equality, unity vs. diversity, private wealth vs. common wealth—students need to understand four value tensions that underlie historic events.

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Teaching Science Literacy

Maria Grant and Diane Lapp

How to foster a complex understanding of compelling everyday science.

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Staying Civil

Wayne Journell

Political tolerance can be taught—but only if supported through practice.

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More Than Meets the Eye

Bonnie B. Rushlow

A good visual arts program is the hub of a top-notch school.

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EL Study Guide

Teresa Preston

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Inservice Guest Blogger: David J. Ferrero

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March 2011
What Students Need to Learn

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