This year, with structural overhauls at the national level largely stalled as a divided Congress focused on other issues, the attention of our readers was drawn to what is going on inside classrooms. Our most popular article of 2019 was “The Best Way to Help Children Remember Things? Not ‘Memorable Experiences’,” by a British educator, Clare Sealy. She discussed ways for teachers to plan math and science lessons so that students learn the material even if they don’t remember the individual classes. “Serving the Math Whiz Kids,” by Kathryn Baron, covered math education. “Put ‘Whole Language’ on Trial,” by Michael J. Petrilli, is about how best to teach reading.
This year, with structural overhauls at the national level largely stalled as a divided Congress focused on other issues, the attention of our readers was drawn to what is going on inside classrooms. Our most popular article of 2019 was “The Best Way to Help Children Remember Things? Not ‘Memorable Experiences’,” by a British educator, Clare Sealy. She discussed ways for teachers to plan math and science lessons so that students learn the material even if they don’t remember the individual classes. “Serving the Math Whiz Kids,” by Kathryn Baron, covered math education. “Put ‘Whole Language’ on Trial,” by Michael J. Petrilli, is about how best to teach reading.