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Were developed and she came home with a d. what happened that was so dramatically different. >> my school district implemented cpm, and they saw common core and reviewed several different curriculums and voted on that as being the best one to meet common core requirements. cpm requires a grou learning atmosphere, direct ininstruction is not encouraged at all. its discouraged in favor of group learning, and actually like the students to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get to the po...

Were developed and she came home with a d. what happened that was so dramatically different. >> my school district implemented cpm, and they saw common core and reviewed several different curriculums and voted on that as being the best one to meet common core requirements. cpm requires a group learning atmosphere, direct ininstruction is not encouraged at all. its discouraged in favor of group learning, and actually like the student to kind of struggle for a couple weeks until they get to the po...

For longer, whether music lessons, whether sports, academics youre going to be better at it. >> amanda, do you agree with it? >> its complicated. on one hand i think thats true in many countries, they are spending more time in school. on the other hand, other countries spend the same time in school like finland. american teenagers do more hours of homework than some students in some countries. what matter most is not quantity but quality. they are being asked to do work that maybe doesnt make th...

>> believe it or not, americas top young scientist is just 11 years old but has already lived through some frightening hurricanes. >> one in particular, inspired him to build a better mouse trap. a sandbag that doesnt have any sand. abcs matt gutman got a demonstration. >> reporter: peyton robertson has the enthusiasm of an infomerical king. here he is in his audition tape for this years young scientist contest and the ingenuity of edison. >> i created a prototype. >> reporter: the 11-year-old f...

Date october 5 to november 15. a teacher in rhode island in hot water. she meant to send students answers to a math problems but instead sent nude pictures of herself. some even said the woman showed up to class the next day and didnt address the issue. in response, the university said -- quote -- "this incident was inappropriate and well look into it and take appropriate actions under our policies and procedures." " >> perhaps she can take a role in the movie, new report. the male lead in 50 ...

After a tragedy. >> reporter: the head of a top doctors group says it will help improve communications with patients. heres a story that could only happen in our social media obsessed culture. get this. a teaching assistant at the university of iowa set off a twitter firestorm after accidentally sending explicit images of herself to her students. she had intended -- she intended to send solution to math problems. >> that could be solutions. >> i guess it was hard math. the student reports the ...

>> 20. i was thinking about doing a show called do the math where people sit here and just work out math problems. great idea. >> it would be one problem and none of us would figure it out. >> somebody comes here and it wont even be the same math problem. it will be five different ones so you cant even repeat. bill, fox news now just pays you in twizzlers, yet in 1989 you probably would have gotten more twizzlers. that has to upset you. >> it did. i have a game show. you have to go around and fi...

At kindergarten. in this i saw absolutely no value in to why a kid 5 years old should be anything other than happy to be at school. the fact that chicago public schools are using these to ascertain data at the emotional cost i think is too high a price to pay. i mean, obviously if all youre doing is testing, you arent learning. >> t-e-s -- test. a test is something that you take to see if you have learned well. >> you have to answer the questions. >> do you like math problems? >> without looking...

She couldnt hear the questions. the headsets didnt fit correctly. she couldnt get the mouse to work. she was afraid to go to sleep that night. she was worried about the test the next day because she was worried she was going to do badly. afterwards she said i am no good at kindergarten. in this i saw absolutely no value in to why a kid 5 years old should be anything other than happy to be at school. the fact that chicago public schools are using these to ascertain data at the emotional cost i th...

The headsets didnt fit correctly. she couldnt get the mouse to work. she was afraid to go to sleep that night. she was worried about the test the next day because she was worried she was going to do badly. afterwards she said i am no good at kindergarten. in this i saw absolutely no value in to why a kid 5 years old should be anything other than happy to be at school. the fact that chicago public schools are using these to ascertain data at the emotional cost i think is too high a price to pay. ...