Why the Classic Learning Test, which embraces Aristotle but spurns calculators, has caught Indiana’s eye A test that relies ...
Conservative-pushed Classic Learning Test is now replacing the SAT and ACT in some states - Unlike its competitors, the ...
Three parts. One goal. No forgiveness. The SAT comes every year without fail, forcing millions of students across the country into classrooms of endless desks filled with dread in the crack of dawn.
Years before software programmers sat poised over their keyboards in sleek, expansive tech offices, women built the foundations of modern computer programming— in less-than-glamorous conditions. For ...
My fourth-grader handed over results from a standardized reading test she recently took. We were in her classroom for an event aimed at bringing parents to the school: “Donuts with Grownups.” After a ...
Instead, the authors pinned the change on COVID-19 and an increase in low-income student enrollments. It’s unclear whether they knew about the calculator policy change. The report’s authors attributed ...
Urban legends about how much students and people hate math might be exaggerated. While we're in school, many of us consider the subject impenetrable. However, at least in England, mathematics has been ...
In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...
I have spent my professional life evaluating the gates of American higher education, most prominently as an Associate Director of Admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and now as a college ...
The 1986 protest against calculators is going viral on social media. (@JonErlichman/X) An old newspaper page from 1986 has resurfaced on social media, showing math teachers protesting against the use ...