What Students Need to Learn

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Reviews, research, and relevant reads.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The content of tests becomes the learning goal for students.

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

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

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

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

News and resources from ASCD.

A status report on legislative and advocacy matters.

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