By Brogan Murphy, CEI Intern Access to Clean Water. When you thought of safety and security, water safety, the consistent and reliable...

By Christine Mason, CEI Executive Director We recommend you click on the links to listen as you read. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its...

In Donald Kim’s last blog entry, he covered the education interests of possible presidential candidates. But what do we (CEI) advocate?...

The 2016 presidential election is not far off. And with the primaries and caucuses approaching within a matter of months, now is a good...

By Joshua Hassell, CEI Intern Florida, historically a leader in educational reform, might have slightly different concerns about Common...

By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern The main issues with Common Core in Arkansas are nothing new. A lack of...

By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern, and Christine Mason The old patterns of isolating math instruction, over a gradual period of time, have...

By Lindsay Reeves, CEI Intern In the past, the general emphasis in math has been on the breadth of the content, not the depth. Common...

By Elijah Mercer, CEI Education Policy and Communications Intern Up and Down Battle. While Arizona has adopted the Common Core Standards,...

By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern Since 2010, 46 states have adopted the Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCSS). Of America’s 50 states, only...

By Elijah Mercer, CEI Intern The debate concerning the implementation of Common Core testing standards is now shifting from policy makers...

By Nick Jones, CEI Intern In a recent Washington Post opinion piece by Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education calls for a balanced...

By Nick Jones, CEI Intern Last month, the CEI team of Dr. Chris Mason, Liz Parry, and Sue Mullane visited Chesterfield Academy to offer...

By Nick Jones, CEI Intern This fall marks the first school year that ethnic and racial minority students are the majority in public...

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” John O’Donohue By Christine Mason, CEI...

By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern. Arts Education has frequently taken a backseat to the concepts of 21st century learning, something, and...

By Melanie Holland, CEI Intern From Kathleen Odean, a past chair of the prestigious Newbery Award Committee, comes recommendations for...

Montessori, the Method. The Montessori Method is based on the idea that each child must be permitted to control his or her own learning...

Are your curricula aligned? That’s a lot of pressure for teachers! They’ve got to scrape together materials, which may or may not reflect...

Webinar Description. The NAESP Rigor seminar was developed with an eye toward providing information about rigor in the classroom,...