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Advanced-Stage Charter Syndrome
What “Maturity” Means to the Charter Movement. By Nancy Flanagan.
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Why Is My Whiteboard So Dirty?
If you have an old, well-used whiteboard in your classroom, you might see something a little strange -- ghosts! But not the spooky, bust-able kind... these are the ghosts of lectures past!
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Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot
Students mostly couldn’t tell ‘Jill Watson’ wasn’t human; ‘Yep!’
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The Exhausting Life of a First-Year Science Teacher
What it’s like to learn how to teach—while teaching
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'Success is the norm': the unlikely school where students sweep the Ivy League
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna isn’t the first student at Elmont Memorial high school to get into all eight Ivy League universities – what sets the school apart?
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Is algebra an unnecessary stumbling block in US schools?
Who needs algebra? That question muttered by many a frustrated student over the years has become a vigorous debate among American educators, sparked by a provocative new book that argues required algebra has become an unnecessary stumbling block that forces millions to drop out of high school or college. "One out of 5 young Americans does not graduate from high school. This is one of the worst records in the developed world. Why? The chief academic...
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Algebra an unnecessary stumbling block in US schools.
NEW YORK (AP) — Who needs algebra? That question muttered by many a frustrated student over the years has become a vigorous debate among American educators, sparked by a provocative new book.
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Alabama teachers may soon receive training on not having sex with students
A bill approved by an Alabama Senate committee would require teachers to receive an hour of training a year on sexual relations and other inappropriate relations with students. The Education Policy Committee approved the bill by Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, the Decatur Daily reported. The Educator-Student Interaction Training Act would require training on sexual or romantic contact, social media interactions, interactions outside the classroom and the use of corporal...
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South Carolina Teacher Sues School After Student Shares Her Nude Photo
The photo of Leigh Anne Arthur spread after a 16-year-old grabbed her phone from her desk and shared her photo on social media.
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Stephen Fry Helps Launch Pindex, a “Pinterest for Education”
Pindex is “a self-funded online platform that creates and curates educational videos and infographics for teachers and students,” founded and run by a four-person team.
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'Coddled' Student Activists Complain There's Not Enough Time for Homework
According to a recent article in Brown University’s campus newspaper, some students are now complaining that their coursework is getting in the way of their political activism. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” The Brown Daily Herald quoted one undergraduate student as saying.
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Why DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Campaign Looks Like It Comes Right Out of Teach for America’s Playbook
As Mckesson launches his outsider candidacy for mayor of Baltimore, many worry his roots in the education privatization movement put the city’s public schools in peril. By Drew Franklin.
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‘What passes for acceptable school choice rhetoric is frightening’
An eyewitness account of a National School Choice Week event. By Valerie Strauss. (Jan. 30)
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In This Poor Mississippi Town, Teacher Assistant Is a Coveted Job. It Pays $9 an Hour
Every weekday morning, Jasmine Riley, a single parent, drops her three children off at day care and school by 7:30 a.m. so she can start a long day as a teaching assistant at Greenville’s McBride Pre-K Academy. Many afternoons, she has only an hour and a half to spend with her kids... By Miriam Hall. (Jan. 21)
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States consider allowing kids to learn coding instead of foreign languages
A former Yahoo executive turned Florida lawmaker is proposing allowing students to take computer science courses as an alternative to two required foreign language classes. But the proposal has been controversial with legislators and advocates for coding, who say foreign languages remain valuable.
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How to Make History Exciting
One professor is borrowing a method from Harvard Business School to teach students about America’s past and inspire better judgment for the future. In a spacious classroom in Aldrich Hall on the Harvard Business School campus, 100 students are passionately discussing a case called “Battle Over a Bank.” But these aren’t MBA students deliberating over how much the government should regulate the financial sector. This group of mostly undergraduates...
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The testing opt-out movement is growing, despite government efforts to kill it
Education activists and parents say threats of sanctions from the U.S. Education Department won't deter them. By Valerie Strauss.
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs key challenge to California’s largest teachers union
In a case with sweeping implications for public employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear a case challenging the right of California's largest teachers union's to collect fees from non-member teachers. By Howard Mintz.
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Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?
A new study warns that we may be headed towards a charter school bubble. An interview with Preston Green.
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A Brief Catalogue of Minor Sex Scandals
By Martha Stallman.
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