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The Myth of Learning Styles 'Debunked'
Eight arguments against the multiple learning styles theory.
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‘I would love to teach but…’
I published a post with answers to the question: How hard is teaching? Here is one response I received by e-mail from a veteran seventh-grade language arts teacher in Frederick, Maryland, who asked not to be identified because she fears retaliation at her school. In this piece she describes students who don’t want to work, parents who want their children to have high grades no matter what, mindless curriculum and school reformers who insist on trying to quantify things that can’t be measured.
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Why There Is No E in the A-F Grading Scale
Why is there no E in the grading scale? Some schools do hand out E letter grades instead of an F, but they are in the minority. A majority of schools in the United States, particularly beyond primary age, give grades of A, B, C, D, or F. Rather than a failure on..
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Kids are posting online tutorials on how to get their teachers fired
If you weren’t convinced by that Frozen splinter removal video from earlier today that children are demons sent from hell to emasculate and enslave adults to their every pernicious whim... well, this’ll probably do the trick.
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Teacher quits job rather than 'unfriend' students
A 79-year-old substitute teacher in New Hampshire is leaving her longtime job after a dispute with school administrators over Facebook. According to CNN affiliate WMUR, Carol Thebarge has been working as a substitute teacher in Claremont, New Hampshire, for the past 35 years, but when school administrators at Stevens High School told her she had to choose between her job and being "friends" with her students on Facebook, she chose her students.
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Without Tenure or a Home
In the classroom, Mary-Faith Cerasoli, 53, an adjunct professor of Romance languages, usually tries to get her message across in lyrical Italian or Spanish. But on Wednesday, during spring break, she was using stencils and ink and abbreviated English to write her current message — “Homeless Prof.” — on a white ski vest she planned to wear on a solo trip to Albany two days later to protest working conditions for adjunct college professors.
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School board apologizes for 'horribly inappropriate' Holocaust assignment
At an emergency school board meeting Wednesday night, Rialto School District officials apologized for an eighth-grade critical-thinking writing assignment that asked students to consider whether the Holocaust was created for political gain or didn't happen at all.
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“Everybody got paid but Raheem still can’t read”
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had an ambitious plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
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In Mexico, notorious for bad education, teachers make big bucks
We already know about the abysmal state of education in Mexico, where students routinely score near the bottom of international testing. But a new report by a Mexico-based think tank has revealed some real zingers, including 70 teachers who haul in more pesos than the president of the nation (the equivalent of about $15,000 a month). One impoverished state, Hidalgo, was said to have more than 1,000 teachers listed as 100 or more years old.
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These Kids Are Using Twitter To Get Out Of Finals
If these teachers are dumb enough to agree to it, let’s help make it happen.
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How I Became an Unfair Teacher
It's easy to forget how tiny, arbitrary, everyday decisions can shape a kid's school experience.
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JRR Tolkien called teaching 'exhausting and depressing' in unseen letter
Lord of the Rings author's rediscovered message to fellow teacher talks about how frustrating he found the work
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A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind
According to statements later made by teachers and administrators, the cheating process at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, began to take the form of a routine. During testing week, after students had completed the day’s section, principal Christopher Waller distracted the testing coordinator. Then, while the students were at recess, a group of teachers erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones.
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A Middle-School Cheating Scandal
One afternoon in the spring of 2006, Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, unlocked the room where standardized tests were kept. It was the week before his students took the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, which determined whether schools in Georgia had met federal standards of achievement. The tests were wrapped in cellophane and stacked in cardboard boxes.
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Why Do Americans Love to Blame Teachers?
Healthcare has its critics, but few of them are calling for doctors to be replaced. Education is different—and as a new book reveals, it has been throughout U.S. history.
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So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class...
In 2008, shortly after Bill Gates stepped down from his executive role at Microsoft, he often awoke in his 66,000-square-foot home on the eastern bank of Lake Washington and walked downstairs to his private gym in a baggy T-shirt, shorts, sneakers and black socks yanked up to the midcalf. Then, during an hour on the treadmill, Gates, a self-described nerd, would pass the time by watching DVDs from the Teaching Company’s “Great Courses” series.
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Teen Feels Bad His Bragging Over Teacher-Threesome Got Them Arrested
The high school junior who allegedly had a threesome with two of his teachers is overcome with guilt after he says his bragging ruined their lives. The unnamed Louisiana teen, now 17, made the mistake of talking about his sexual conquest with English teachers Rachel Respess, 24, and Shelley Dufresne, 32, and the news soon found its way to school administrators, who informed the police.
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The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s
In the 1970s, idealistic young activists created a wave of experimental schools - no compulsory lessons, no timetables, no rules. So what happened to the kids who attended these free-for-alls?
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Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
Do teachers really know what students go through? To find out, one teacher followed two students for two days and was amazed at what she found. Her report is in following post, which appeared on the blog of Grant Wiggins, the co-author of “Understanding by Design” and the author of “Educative Assessment” and numerous articles on education.
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At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’
Professor Kenneth Goldsmith, who will teach the creative writing class, says he will strictly enforce "a state of distraction" among the students.
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