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Top Education Stories of 2015

Education Week's Most Viewed

To provide a sense of what was high on our readers’ priority lists in 2015, the editors at Education Week compiled a list of our 10 most-viewed articles.

Education Opinion Top Opinion Blog Posts of 2015: Education Week's Most-Viewed
Education Week's opinion bloggers discussed and debated growth mindset, the teaching profession, school leadership, and more in the most-read posts of the year.
December 28, 2015
Education Opinion Top Education Commentaries of 2015: Education Week's Most-Viewed
To give a sense of which opinion essays our readers found most compelling in 2015, the editors at Education Week have compiled a list of our most-viewed Commentaries.
December 28, 2015
Ann Marie Corgill poses with Alabama State Superintendent Thomas Bice after being named the state's 2014-15 teacher of the year.
Ann Marie Corgill poses with Alabama State Superintendent Thomas Bice after being named the state's 2014-15 teacher of the year.
Alabama State Department of Education
Federal Top Ala. Teacher's Resignation Sparks Questions on Certification Rules
The situation of former Alabama Teacher of the Year Ann Marie Corgill puts a personal face on the issue of who is allowed to teach and where.
Ross Brenneman, November 10, 2015
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Alan Velazquez, a 5th grader at Gust Elementary School in Denver, helps a peer with a math equation. Gust is among a growing number of schools that are teaching students to look at their own work and their classmates’ work to figure out where they are in the learning process and where they need to be. Some consider such evaluations to be one form of formative assessment.
Alan Velazquez, a 5th grader at Gust Elementary School in Denver, helps a peer with a math equation. Gust is among a growing number of schools that are teaching students to look at their own work and their classmates’ work to figure out where they are in the learning process and where they need to be. Some consider such evaluations to be one form of formative assessment.
Nathan W. Armes for Education Week
Assessment Searching for Clarity on Formative Assessment
Ask five teachers what formative assessment is and you're likely to get five different definitions.
Catherine Gewertz, November 9, 2015
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Teacher Rebecca Decker works with students at Lone Star Elementary in Fresno, Calif., in 2011. The Sanger district, which includes Lone Star, was using response to intervention at the time to identify students early who were struggling in a particular subject, and get them help before they fell too far behind.
Teacher Rebecca Decker works with students at Lone Star Elementary in Fresno, Calif., in 2011. The Sanger district, which includes Lone Star, was using response to intervention at the time to identify students early who were struggling in a particular subject, and get them help before they fell too far behind.
Manny Crisostomo for Education Week
Reading & Literacy Study: RTI Practice Falls Short of Promise
Response to intervention failed to improve the reading skills of students identified for initial interventions in a 13-state study.
Sarah D. Sparks, November 6, 2015
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Meredith Clark, upper right, a 1st grade teacher in Newnan, Ga., discusses her students’ academic skill levels during a parent-teacher meeting earlier this month at Ruth Hill Elementary School, one of the schools that is revamping the traditional back-to-school night.
Meredith Clark, upper right, a 1st grade teacher in Newnan, Ga., discusses her students’ academic skill levels during a parent-teacher meeting earlier this month at Ruth Hill Elementary School, one of the schools that is revamping the traditional back-to-school night.
Ruth Hill Elementary
Families & the Community Parent-Teacher Conferences Get a Makeover
Schools are revamping traditional back-to-school nights to enlist parents' help in ensuring that their children master key academic skills.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 29, 2015
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Students in a classroom at Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Del., listen to a social studies lecture from their teacher.
Students in a classroom at Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Del., listen to a social studies lecture from their teacher.
Charles Mostoller for Education Week
Classroom Technology Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach
A mountain of evidence indicates that educators have been painfully slow to use technology to change and improve the ways they teach.
Benjamin Herold, June 10, 2015
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Special Education Hurdles in Pairing General, Special Education Teachers
Poorly implemented co-teaching practices may be taking the "special" out of special education, say many who train teachers and districts in collaboration.
Christina A. Samuels, June 9, 2015
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6 min read
Kindergartners take part in a read-aloud session led by their teacher, Jamie Landahl, at Ruby Duncan Elementary School in North Las Vegas.
Kindergartners take part in a read-aloud session led by their teacher, Jamie Landahl, at Ruby Duncan Elementary School in North Las Vegas.
Tiffany Brown Anderson/Redux for Education Week
Reading & Literacy New Read-Aloud Strategies Transform Story Time
Under the common core, teachers use new questioning techniques to help the youngest students learn to draw evidence from what they read.
Catherine Gewertz, May 11, 2015
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Long-Term Gains
School & District Management New Studies Find That, for Teachers, Experience Really Does Matter
New research challenges the belief that teachers plateau early in their careers, suggesting instead their effectiveness grows over the first decade in the classroom and beyond.
Stephen Sawchuk, March 24, 2015
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Curriculum Most Math Curricula Found to Be Out of Sync With Common Core
A new Consumer Reports-style review of instructional materials for K-8 math has found that 17 out of 20 series fail to fully align with the Common Core State Standards.
Liana Loewus, March 4, 2015
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School & District Management A Fresh Approach to Ranking States on Education
The 19th annual edition of Education Week's Quality Counts includes a new take on the state report cards and provides a leaner format that focuses on educational outcomes from early childhood on up.
EdWeek Research Center, January 3, 2015
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