The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis.

The Common Core State Standards place an emphasis on process, not just content. We can’t just teach students a bunch of facts; we have to show them how to learn. If we simply fill students’ heads with information, they may forget it days later. But if we teach students how to research, discover, question, and obtain new information on their own...

The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis.

The Common Core State Standards for grades K–5 indicate that students should write opinion, informative/explanatory, and narrative pieces. The best way to help students learn how to write in these genres is to show them a variety of real-world exemplars, or mentor texts....

The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis.

Earlier this month, I attended the International Reading Association’s 57th Annual Convention, held this year in Chicago. The event brings together educators and educational publishers from across the country to share best practices and resources. I was accompanied by Eye On Education’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Annamarie Cerreta. We had a great time! Here are some highlights from our trip.

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month.

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and you know what that means, principals… It’s time to shower your hard-working teachers with brand new cars, all-expense-paid vacations, and as many extravagant gifts as you can shove into their mailboxes.

 Okay, maybe expensive cars and trips won’t fit into this year’s budget, but that doesn’t mean you can’t show your appreciation to teachers in other ways...

Each April, National Autism Awareness Month is recognized in order to bring awareness to the public about autism and the issues faced within the autism community.

According to the latest report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 1 in 88 children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As “spectrum disorders,” ASDs affect different people in different ways, and while people with ASDs share certain symptoms — such as challenges with social interactions or communication — they often experience those symptoms to varying extents.

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month.

The New York City Department of Education recently came out with a list of words that they want to ban from standardized tests. The list includes dinosaur, Halloween, birthday, divorce, politics, rap music, cigarettes, religion, and rock & roll, as well as certain food words.

I understand the need for sensitivity when designing tests. Before joining Eye On Education, I was Director of English at a company that publishes test-prep workbooks for secondary students. When my colleagues and I chose reading passages and wrote questions for the sample tests, we were careful not to choose readings that would upset students. For example, we avoided middle school reading selections about someone whose pet died.

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The following blog post was written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor, Lauren Davis.

At the NCTE convention last month, everyone was buzzing about the Common Core State Standards. Teachers wanted to know how the new standards will alter what they teacher and how they teach it.

To gather answers to those questions, I attended a variety of NCTE sessions, and I spoke to educators across the country. Here's what I learned. To meet the CCSS, teachers should...

In our monthly E-News, we bring you the latest education news, resources, and classroom ideas from the Eye On Education Blog and other blogs we read. Click below for our favorite educational blog posts from the past month.

Barbara R. Blackburn, best-selling author of Rigor is NOT a Four-Letter Word and Rigorous Schools and Classrooms: Leading the Way, will be presenting on Common Core State Standards... Only the Beginning during Eye On Education's upcoming online conference: Eye On School Success.

Want to learn more about Barbara's upcoming presentation, Common Core State Standards... Only the Beginning? Check out the video below for a sneak peak at her presentation.

In a recent article from The New York Times, “Split by Race and Wealth, but Discovering Similarities as They Study Steinbeck,” Winnie Hu reports on an innovative collaboration between two New Jersey eighth-grade classes who have embraced the study of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men as a way to connect with each other and better understand their world.

The following guest post was written by Eye On Education author Franklin Schargel. Franklin is the author of many best-selling titles, including the new Dropout Prevention Fieldbook and 152 Ways to Keep Students in School.

President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, called for every state to require students to stay in school until they turn 18. 

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