Contributed by Mark McCaffrey This post was originally published on NCSE.com. What do ISO 14000 and 4-ESS3-1 have in common? Both are standards. The first is a family of standards from the International Organization for Standardization developed in 1996 to “help organizations…minimize how their operations (processes etc.) negatively affect
I respect Jim Burke a lot. Here's why: He's a prolific author of helpful books for teachers, and, get this: he still teaches; He's a co-author on the high school edition of They Say / I Say (I partially explain my obsession with this book here and here); In addition to a
Contributed by Joe Crawford About everywhere one looks or reads these days, some entity is pushing back against the CCSS, questioning their validity, their development process, and even, ultimately, their relevance to and very application to improve student performance. Many express fears that this is the