July 16, 2008: Engagement is the Answer by Joseph S. Renzulli. Read this article from Education Week that discusses the importance of engagement to academic success.
May 12, 2008: Hopkins Academy and Faith Family Church in Victoria, Texas holding benefit concert to raise money to purchase Curriculum On Wheels.
March 18, 2008: Motivating Students in the Middle Years. This article, published by Education Week, talks about the unique challenges faced by middle school students and educators.
March 13, 2008: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel. Read the report presented by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel to the President and the Secretary of Education. Foundations for Success: The Final Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of Education: Washington, DC, 2008.
November 2007: Teaching Mathematics and English to English Language Learners Simultaneously. From the Middle School Journal, "this article has offered a perspective for thinking about the role of language in mathematical development, and ways in which teachers of mathematics can facilitate the two-for-one learning goal of content and linguistic development."
Taken from the National Middle School Association’s website (Middle School Journal, November 2007, Volume 39, Number 2, Pages 4-11)
Authored by
David Slavit
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
Washington State University Vancouver
Gisela Ernst-Slavit
Professor of Bilingual/ESL Education
Washington State University Vancouver
Music and Learning: Read about integrating music in the classroom in an
article reprinted from the book Music and Learning by Chris Brewer.
Doing What Works: According to this article from Education Week, Doing
What Works (http://dww.ed.gov/) is a new initiative from the Department of Education, which seeks to put research-based practices into examples of tools that support and improve classroom instruction.
Voices of Students on Engagement: A Report on the 2006 High School
Survey of Student Engagement. Research indicates that engaged students
get more from school on all levels than do their disengaged peers.
In This Class, Math Comes With Music: in an article that ran in the
Washington Post on November 13, 2007, Michael Alison Chandler explores the benefits of using music in education.
Middle Schoolers Face Special Academic Hurdles: in an article that ran in the Baltimore Times on October 12, 2007, Dr. Raymond Huntington advises parents about staying involved with their children during the middle-school years.
CA Study about Science in the Elementary Grades: an article by Nanette Asimov dated October 25, 2007 from the San Francisco Chronicle details a survey of 923 Bay Area teachers that found science courses are nearly extinct in the elementary grades.
Music Education Facts and Figures: read some interesting facts on the benefits of music education from the National Association for Music Education.
NSTA Position Statement: read a paper by the National Science Teachers Association about science education for middle level students.
The Silent Epidemic, Perspectives of High School Dropouts: a report by Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.