This article is part of the CTE's Monthly Article series. In this article, Lee Shulman, current President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, offers a fresh perspective on learning taxonomies. Building on the work of one of his former teachers - Benjamin Bloom - Shulman provides a context for understanding the development of taxonomies in education and then offers his own "Table of Learning" for consideration. As always, Shulman's inquiring perspective and clear style shed new light on the value of using taxonomies to support teaching and learning. We hope you'll read the article and follow Shulman's advice to use it "as a stimulus for thinking about the design and evaluation of education, and as the basis for creative narratives about the learning process."

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