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What Happens to Test Scores When Teachers Are Paid $125,000 a Year?
A charter school in a low-income Manhattan neighborhood tries an experiment—with mixed results.
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Rise of the MOOC: In the future you’ll never stop learning
The growing pace of technological change will result in workers needing to learn continuously, or face falling behind, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s director of digital learning, Professor Sanjay Sarma. Speaking at Innovisions 2014, the London-based yearly conference of NEF: The Innovation Institute on Thursday, Sarma said: “I anticipate a day where every employee at every company will spend two to three hours a week upgrading their skills.”
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Here's What Happens When A School Pays Its Teachers A Lot, Lot More Money
What if teachers were paid salaries more on par with doctors and lawyers? Lo and behold, the teachers perform better and students learn more.
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A Smarter Way to Teach the Teachers
Teachers’ learning needs are as unique as their students’. Why, then, is their professional development so awkwardly flat?
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Confessions Of a Drug-Addicted High School Teacher
One year may not sound like enough time for a life to come apart at the seams, but a year in the life of a drug addict can be counted by drama, bullshit and tragedies in the same way rings can be counted on a tree. What? You’re still mad at me for overdosing on Christmas? That was like two overdoses and a car accident ago. It’s already Easter, man. Let shit go.
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Teacher Fired For Having Kids Write Why They Hate Classmate on Blackboard
Teacher Madeline Luciano was fired from P.S. 18 after letting students write that a classmate was ugly.
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Thousands of students opt out of Common Core tests in protest
Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance.
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‘Historic’ Ruling States That Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Isn't Sex Ed
A potentially significant ruling in California declares medically accurate sex ed to be taught
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The outrageous treatment of one of the nation’s most outstanding teachers
Rafe Esquith has been barred from teaching as part of an investigation that began with him telling a joke.
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When Charters Go Union
Most charter school funders hate unions and unions generally hate charters. But more and more charter teachers want to unionize, and labor is helping them do it.
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Closed Minds, Great Books
Faulkner offends nearly everyone, but he forces us to dive into the human wreckage of racism and violence.
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How to Understand a Japanese "sentence" -- Ken Butler's "Japanese CyberTutorial 3
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"What Teachers Make," by Taylor Mali
Taylor Mali is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher, and voiceover artist. "What Teachers Make" is likely his most famous poem.
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No Phones, Please, This Is a Communications Class
Students don’t stand a chance to engage when they’re lured into the digital labyrinth.
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Teachers TryScience
Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers. This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). What’s more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices.
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Hacking the Humanities
In the past decade, digital scholarship has gone from being a quirky corner of the humanities to a mainstream phenomenon.
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‘Well I’ll be VAMned!’ Why using student test scores to evaluate teachers is a sham
Using facts and figures, an educator shows that "it is an impossible mission to create a valid and fair formula by which to rate teachers using student test scores.'
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The Writing Assignment That Changes Lives
Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.
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Ohio Teachers Retiring This Summer In Large Numbers
Thousands of Ohio teachers are choosing to put down chalk and pick up checks instead.
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The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
We have a rare chance now, with many teachers near retirement, to prove we’re serious about education. The first step is to make the teaching profession more attractive to college graduates.
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