Born in Chicago on April 22, 1902, Ralph W. Tyler was a visionary educator and a leading proponent of student-centered learning. At the request of the Carnegie Corporation, he chaired a committee that developed the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, in 1967. Today, NAEP is known as the “Nation’s Report Card” and it remains the most reliable national data on student achievement.
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First, why is alignment so important? Teachers rely on their instructional materials for 80% of their curriculum and expect that the materials the district purchases will be aligned to 100% of the standards. Yet the actual alignment percentage of materials does not always match a publisher’s submitted alignment percentage.
Students are more likely to do well on state assessments if their instructional materials help them learn what the state requires them to know and be able to do after taking the course. Publishers regularly tell us that going through our review process has helped them strengthen their materials in a variety of ways: 1) Creating correlations for more …
Although the state of Texas has chosen not to adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as the state’s K-12 English language arts and math standards, Texas school boards are, nevertheless, facing an ongoing struggle over the CCSS.
People often ask what is the definition of “instructional material.” Though we’ve adopted an expansive definition of “instructional material, ” you won’t find this video reviewed on LearningList.com even though it is one of the more popular lessons about grammar with over 14 million views. However, we thought we’d just share it to ease your transition back into the school year.
Two of the most recent instructional materials reviews published on Learning List are science subjects. Perfection Learning provides comprehensive textbooks for introductory high school courses in earth science and marine science. Earth Science: The Physical Setting is a full-year course that explores topics in astronomy, meteorology, geology, and oceanography. The course introduces fundamental concepts while developing students’ problem-solving and critical-thinking …
This past weekend at ISTE*, Compass Learning unveiled its new suite of accelerated learning software to help teachers tackle some of today’s biggest education challenges. The new offerings focus on blended learning, intervention and credit recovery with software that includes: Pathblazer™ a reading and math intervention program for elementary and middle school students, Hybridge™ a blended learning solution for elementary and …
Learning List has recently reviewed Adaptive Curriculum’s supplementary science curricula for grades 5-12. With Adaptive Curriculum, students can deepen their Middle School curriculum with interactive, 100% online instruction that answers the question: “Why do I need to know this?”
We just learned that the Urban Curriculum Council asked Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to submit the instructional materials they submitted for state adoption to Learning List for review, as well. The Urban Curriculum Council is a consortium of the instructional leaders of the 17 largest school districts in Texas. Why did they make this request? On September 20th, …
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