Education Commissioner Terry Holliday Scholastic recently released some early results from the third edition of Primary Sources, a survey of more than 20,000 teachers across the nation. The early release highlighted three major findings concerning teachers’ views on the Common Core State Standards, which in Kentucky are called the Kentucky Core Academic Standards. Here are the key findings. [...]
‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again’ goes beyond experimentation in Kentucky schools.
Former Kentucky educator calls on teachers to "drive conversation" about improving standards.
The Kentucky Board of Education publicly supported the Common Core State Standards and adopted new science standards at its June meeting.
Education Commissioner Terry Holliday Education Commissioner Terry Holliday recently had a column published in the Cincinnati Enquirer in which he discusses the link between Senate Bill 1 and the Kentucky Core Academic Standards. This is a longer version of that column. Our goal in Kentucky is to provide students in our state with a world class education that will prepare them for [...]
Registration is now underway for Let's TALK: Conversations about Effective Teaching, a conference for, by and about Kentucky teachers. The conference will be held Wednesday, June 19-21 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville The conference will focus on teaching the Kentucky Core Academic Standards (KCAS) and will provide good information and opportunities for feedback on the new Professional Growth [...]
Madsen excited to show her students there’s so much more to black history than just the slavery era.
New science and social studies standards; encouraging districts to raise the dropout age; and exposing more students to Advanced Placement classes were part of the Kentucky Board of Education meeting.
The Kentucky PTA and 15th District PTA (Jefferson County) have received a generous grant from the National PTA to go out into the state and talk to parents about the Kentucky Core Academic Standards (KCAS) and Kentucky’s new public school assessment, called the Kentucky Performance Rating for Educational Progress (K-PREP) tests. The approximately 90-minute training is free and open to [...]
Teachers are using new ways to teach grammar – and perhaps learning it along the way.