Jasmine Bankhead needed to figure out a way to improve teaching at her school. It was 2013. She was the new principal of the O’Keeffe School of Excellence, an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side ...

One of the standards for mathematical practice in the Common Core is to "construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.” That’s a tall order for students used to sitting quietly in a ...

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