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Category Archives: Curriculum

What is a Course?

August 23, 2013

In my 100th blog post I complained about the course called ‘algebra’. Some commenters misunderstood the complaint. Though I said a few …

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Grant Wiggins is the co-author of Understanding by Design and the author of Educative Assessment and numerous articles on education. He is the President of Authentic Education in Hopewell NJ. You can read more about him and his work at the AE site (click here)

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Recent Posts

  • My reply to Willingham, Part 2
  • Part 1 of a reply to Willingham on reading strategies
  • Some excerpts from PISA Math Results – 15 year olds
  • My mother’s puzzlement
  • A brief post on NAEP Civics and History Test Results
  • A guest post on (too much) Lecturing in HS History
  • An Open Letter to Governor Cuomo: Re-think the Regs of APPR
  • Why do so many HS history teachers lecture so much?
  • On wise text selection for developing comprehension: Post #8 in a series
  • On transfer as the goal in literacy (7th in a series)
  • Another shadowing report
  • 8 Reasons that today’s high school is poor preparation for today’s college
  • On literacy and strategy, part 6: my first cut at recommendations
  • On Reading, Part 5: A key flaw in using the Gradual Release of Responsibility model
  • On reading, Part 4: research on the comprehension strategies – a closer look
  • My 200th Post – On Literacy Part 3
  • On reading, Part 2: what the research REALLY reveals
  • Teacher Effectiveness Ratings – Part 2
  • Teacher Effectiveness Ratings – Part 1
  • 5 unfortunate misunderstandings that almost all educators have about Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Useful Sites

  • Authentic Education – home page
  • Models by Design – Alexis Wiggins
  • Washington Post Education Page

recent tweets

  • Sorry! Didn't realize that Grant's twitter account is the one active on my phone. -Denise, Grant's wife 2 years ago
  • Me, too. 2 years ago
  • Yes. Grant is gone, suddenly and unexpectedly. We are bereft. 5 years ago
  • Grant Wiggins, of brilliant mind and dearest heart, died yesterday. The world has lost a true champion of learning.Carry on the work.-Denise 5 years ago
  • A poster child for Common Core wapo.st/1RabJpc A blunt defense of C Core in OK by a conservative WaPo writer: 5 years ago

RSS Curriculum Matters Blog

  • Need a Primer on Education Week's Civics Project? Listen to This EWA Podcast
    Listen to the Education Writers Association's interview with reporter Stephen Sawchuk on the core themes in Education Week's Citizen Z civics education reporting project.
    Stephen Sawchuk
  • Ways to Improve Civic Engagement and Student Voice: An EdWeek Chat
    Take in the highlights and strategies from Education Week's recent online chat on improving civics education and student voice.
    Stephen Sawchuk
  • Students Increasingly Are Not Reading Over the Summer, Poll Finds
    The Scholastic survey also finds that knowledge helps: Parents who know about "summer slide" make more efforts to help their child keep reading.
    Sasha Jones
  • History Instruction Indicted: Too Much Memorization, Too Little Meaning
    Students in U.S. classrooms are startingly ignorant of American history, but it's not because their teachers have failed them. It's because the curriculum in most schools focuses on memorizing "irrelevant, boring" names and dates, a new study finds.
    Catherine Gewertz
  • This Tool Can Help Identify 'STEM Deserts.' But It Needs Your Feedback
    The National Math and Science Initiative's new tool aims to help the field look for patterns in STEM data, so educators and policy folks can fill in holes.
    Stephen Sawchuk
  • Battle Over Reading: Parents of Children With Dyslexia Wage Curriculum War
    A program to teach children with dyslexia how to read, will now be used with every child in Arkansas. Parents led the way—forcing the state to rethink reading.
    Lisa Stark

RSS NY Times on Education

  • As Pandemic Upends Teaching, Fewer Students Want to Pursue It
    Disruptions to education during the pandemic are turning people away from a profession that was already struggling to attract new recruits.
    Emma Goldberg
  • In San Francisco, Turmoil Over Reopening Schools Turns a City Against Itself
    The San Francisco school board has infuriated parents and the mayor. Now it has descended into chaos over accusations of racism.
    Thomas Fuller and Kate Taylor
  • Schools Are Reopening After a Year Online. Hear From Students.
    In recent weeks, a growing number of students across the country have set foot in their schools, some for the first time since last March. Here’s what they said it was like to return.
    Ellen Almer Durston, Dan Levin and Juliana Kim
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