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Obama again praises S. Korea for ‘paying teachers the way they pay doctors’
During U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday regarding a new government initiative to bring high speed internet access to low-income groups, the topic of South Korea’s education system came up. “In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors,” he said in front of an audience at Durant High School in Durant, Okla. “They consider education to be at the highest wrung of the professions.”
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Why We Should Stop Teaching Novels to High School Students
It wasn’t until my second reading of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, over a decade after it first had been assigned to me by my public high school English teacher, that I understood that Jake’s dick didn’t work...
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Pupils' mental health tops head teachers' concerns - BBC News
Head teachers are more concerned with pupils' mental health than any other issue related to well-being, a survey suggests.
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My disabilities do not define me. I am Jim
On July 26, America celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This law and its predecessors changed the lives of those with disabilities. This is Jim's story.
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In our digital world, are young people losing the ability to read emotions? | UCLA
UCLA scientists report that sixth-graders who went just five days without glancing at a smartphone, television or other screen did substantially better at ...
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Teaching Social Skills to Improve Grades and Lives
Studies confirm the wisdom of teaching social skills first: Children who feel well-liked settle down to learn better in class, and go on to do better in life. By David Bornstein.
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Ex-teacher sentenced after pleading guilty to sex with boys
Brianne Altice, 36, wept before the court Thursday to little, if any, sympathy. She was then sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.
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Principal commits suicide amid Common Core test scandal
The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated
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Georgia is Segregating Troublesome Kids in Schools Used During Jim Crow
A Department of Justice investigation found that Georgia is giving thousands of kids with behavioral issues a subpar education and putting them in the same run-down buildings that served black children decades ago.
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Revised AP history standards will push 'American exceptionalism'
Culture conservatives win battle in ‘anti-American’ history debate as board approves plan to include section in advanced placement courses
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A Black Schoolmaster in the Post-Antebellum South
W. E. B. Du Bois’ 1899 account as a schoolmaster in the American South.
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How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world
Seventy years after the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, its place in history remains secure. As The Post has written: "It's seared into the collective global memory — no other time in history has a nuclear weapon been used in war." But how do the United States and Japan, and the rest of the world for that matter, teach this seminal event so many decades after the world witnessed this incredible display of force.
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20% of New York Students Opted Out of Standardized Tests, Officials Say
Twenty percent of New York State’s third through eighth graders sat out at least one of New York’s standardized tests this year, state education officials said Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.
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Kid President's Pep Talk to Teachers and Students!
Kid President believes we're all teachers and we're all students. What are you teaching the world? Who are you learning from?
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5 Big Ideas That Don't Work In Education
A famous researcher slams popular ideas in a controversial new paper. Hattie directs the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also directs something called the Science of Learning Research Centre, which works with over 7,000 schools worldwide. Over the past 28 years he has published a dozen books, mostly on a theory he calls Visible Learning. His life's work boils down to one proposition: To improve schools, draw on the best evidence available.
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What do Students Lose by Being Perfect? Valuable Failure
The drive to perfection has made children risk averse for fear of failure. Parents and teachers can work together to give kids more autonomy and opportunities for agency.
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The Literature of Lynching
Which lynching poems get taught, which do not, and why. By Hollis Robbins.
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Ed-Tech's Inequalities
The History of the Future of Education Technology
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The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system
How a promising but oversimplified idea caught fire, then got coopted by conservative ideology
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Students Abuzz Over Reading With Lockers Painted as Books
When students returned to Biloxi Junior High School this month, the buzz was not just about their summer vacations but about reading and books, and it is all thanks to two teachers. Elizabeth Williams and Stacey Butera, eighth-grade English language arts (ELA) teachers at the Biloxi, Mississippi,...
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