Epistemology

Academic standards

Psychology

Differentiated instruction

Pedagogy

Academic achievement

Mathematics education

Individualized instruction

Diversity (politics)

Political science

Higher education

Sociology

Phenomenon

Teaching method

Philosophy

Anthropology

Educational leadership

Recent demands for more standards-based teaching can feel like a huge impediment to encouraging differentiated instruction, especially for teachers and principals who recognize student variance and want to address it appropriately. A relatively new phenomenon (at least in its current form), standards-based instruction dominates the educational terrain in a time of great academic diversity in contemporary classrooms. In fact, standardsbased instruction and the high-stakes testing that drives it can often feel like a locomotive rolling over everything in its path, including individualized learning.

Reconcilable Differences: Standards-based Teaching and Differentiation.