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Another shadowing report

April 17, 2015

Today’s post is a guest post from Jeremy Chiappeta, Executive Director at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy. Jeremy took us up on …

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8 Reasons that today’s high school is poor preparation for today’s college

April 8, 2015

I’m working hard on my next literacy post: Meanwhile, this occurred to me on my walk just now, after pondering …

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On literacy and strategy, part 6: my first cut at recommendations

March 31, 2015

As the first phase of bringing closure to these blog posts on literacy at the secondary level, I want to …

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On Reading, Part 5: A key flaw in using the Gradual Release of Responsibility model

March 30, 2015

Yes, reading strategies – and explicit teaching of them – make a considerable difference, as my previous four blog posts …

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On reading, Part 4: research on the comprehension strategies – a closer look

March 26, 2015

In the three previous posts on reading for understanding (here, here, and here) I looked at the general question: What …

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My 200th Post – On Literacy Part 3

March 20, 2015

Hard to believe I have written 200 posts – the equivalent of 2 books, for no pay, and with surprisingly …

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On reading, Part 2: what the research REALLY reveals

March 18, 2015

In a previous post I argued that the dreary and un-improving results on tests of reading comprehension mean we need …

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Teacher Effectiveness Ratings – Part 2

March 12, 2015

In the previous post I looked closely at the data on teacher effectiveness for six different high schools. In this …

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Teacher Effectiveness Ratings – Part 1

March 9, 2015

In the following two posts, I ask teachers and administrators – especially in New York – to ponder this look …

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5 unfortunate misunderstandings that almost all educators have about Bloom’s Taxonomy.

March 4, 2015

Admit it: you only read the list of the six levels of the Taxonomy, not the whole book that explains …

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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 3 years ago
  • Me, too. 3 years ago
  • Yes. Grant is gone, suddenly and unexpectedly. We are bereft. 7 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 7 years ago
  • A poster child for Common Core wapo.st/1RabJpc A blunt defense of C Core in OK by a conservative WaPo writer: 7 years ago

RSS Curriculum Matters Blog

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  • 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

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    With the first day of school in New York less than a month away, the city is caught up in a contentious legal battle over whether to cut school funding.
    Lola Fadulu
  • She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul.
    In their first year at U.S. universities, women who escaped the Taliban are struggling to adjust — and to reckon with what they left behind.
    Maddy Crowell
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