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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts

Update: The nomination for Elizabeth Fennema's NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award has been submitted!

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The materials for Elizabeth Fennema's nomination for an NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award have been submitted! When I started this a few w...

Let's Get Elizabeth Fennema an NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award

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Elizabeth Fennema I've never met Elizabeth Fennema and she retired long ago. But I know her body of work, and I believe she's conspi...

On Major Problems and Grand Challenges, Part 1

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Last month the NCTM Research Committee asked its members to help it identify the grand challenges for mathematics education. Grand challenge...

Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, Chapter 5: Ideas Without a Foothold

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In the first four chapters of From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education , Jack Schneide...

Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, Chapter 4: Direct Instruction

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The fourth chapter of Jack Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education ...

Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, Chapter 3: The Project Method

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Michael Pershan and I, in our chapter-by-chapter review of Jack Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship B...

Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, Chapter 2: Multiple Intelligences

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In my last post I reviewed the first chapter of Jack Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Comm...

Schneider's From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, Chapter 1: Bloom's Taxonomy

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I hold some grudges when it comes to the topic of research to practice in education. A few highlights: A principal who (probably rightly) t...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 6 of 6, Focusing the Council on Standards)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , and Part 5 of this six-part series.) The successful release of the 1989 NCTM Standards paved the ...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 5 of 6, Making a Draft Widely Available for Review; Publishing and Promoting)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , and Part 4 of this six-part series.) So far this series has described the first three of six characteristic...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 4 of 6, Establishing and Supporting Working Groups)

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(See Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 of this six-part series.) NCTM's standards-writing process began in 1986 when the Council proposed th...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 3 of 6, Meeting a [Perceived] Need)

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(See Part 1 and Part 2 of this six-part series.) "Exactly where the Agenda 's call for action might have led without the appearan...

Starting the Standards Era: NCTM and the 1980s (Part 2 of 6, Asserting a Policy-Minded Orientation)

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From the NCTM's inception in 1920 until the 1960s, the organization "played an important but usually secondary role" (McLeod, ...