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Cultural and social diversity is certainly not a new issue facing us humans. However, the burgeoning complexity of our times ca...

Almost seven thousand students drop out of high school every school day (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006), and many of t...

There is no magic fairy who is going to do this work for us. Under the Common Core, text will become increasingly complex. It i...

Rather than basing literacy learning and teaching on a prepared curriculum with a teacher-scripted sequence, teachers need to b...

At the start of the school year the media usually raises the issue about the increasing number of students who are failing to l...

Experts have been debating the best way to teach reading for over fifty years. In reality, there is no single method that will ...

The old paradigm of balanced instruction focused on enabling children and teachers to achieve success at school. Today’s para...

English language learners are a richly heterogeneous group. The paths they take to acquire a new language and to adjust to thei...

English learners require instructional approaches that change as students develop greater proficiency and become independent le...

Recent extensive research has highlighted the shortcomings of the one-off workshops that many school districts tend to provide ...

Rather than basing mathematics learning and teaching on memorized rules for computation, teachers need to be guided by the ques...