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Usable Knowledge News

May 2009

*Now it's your* turn! Education reform, accountability, and the achievement gap**
	HGSE Assistant Professor Jal Mehta discusses raising school standards, ending “pass the buck” accountability, creating change through education reform, and closing the achievement gap. Your comments are welcomed.

Critical exploration in the classroom HGSE professor Eleanor Duckworth describes how teachers' “critical exploration” of students' behavior as they are engaged in an activity can reveal the nature of their understanding.

Treating the “instructional core”: Education rounds

In their new book, Instructional Rounds in Education, HGSE faculty members Richard Elmore, Elizabeth City, and Lee Teitel, along with doctoral student Sarah Fiarman, describe a concept borrowed from medical practice—using “rounds” to improve teaching and learning.

Cover of Instructional Rounds in Education

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