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Learning Empathy From the Dead
The first-year dissection is often an experience that teaches medical students to emotionally detach from their patients. By forcing future doctors to learn about the lives of their cadavers, some medical schools are trying to reverse the effect. By John Tyler Allen. (July 28)
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How New Orleans Proved Urban Education Reform Can Work
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina wiped out huge swaths of the city’s infrastructure and displaced its population, a disaster that paradoxically gave the city the chance to redesign its failing school system. Rather than re-create the neighborhood-based schools that had recapitulated generations of poverty, the city created a network of public charter schools. The charters, which have open admission and public accountability, have produced spectacular results.
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Journalist Suki Kim goes undercover teaching North Korea's elite students
Journalist Suki Kim talks about going undercover in North Korea and discovering a world bound in secrecy and lies.
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Home Schooling Is Shockingly Underregulated. This Small but Fierce Lobbying Group Is Why.
This story was reported through the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. The Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University provided support for this project. In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a young man rummaging in her garbage,...
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The Myth of the New Orleans School Makeover
The takeover by charter programs hasn’t helped the worst-off kids. By Andrea Gabor.
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Washington State announces it will not allow professors to ban words they don't like
After a national uproar over a Washington State professor who threatened to mark down or even fail students who used words such as “illegal aliens,” “tranny,” or referring to men and women as “male or female,” campus officials on Monday came out in strong support of free speech, pledging to “modify” syllabuses that ban words.
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TutorMatch
TutorMatch was established in 1996 to help students easily connect with qualified tutors around the world. TutorMatch offers a directory of tutors waiting to assist students of all ages with homework help from kindergarten to college. http://www.TutorMatch.com
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Food assessment helps kids learn
Free Online resources for teachers, parents and children. Helping kids learn about food quality, nutrition and safety.
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Boston Public School System Seeks To Increase Diversity Among Its Teachers
While 87 percent of Boston Public Schools students are minorities, only 38 percent of teachers are people of color. The city is deploying new efforts to diversify its pool of teachers. And some efforts are starting to pay off as 25 percent of the new teachers hired this school year are black.
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The world learns a lesson that technology in schools doesn't improve education
students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social background and student demographics
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How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids
Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren't even told that such paintings existed. Pretty soon you'd be asking, why study art?
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University student union bans free Tex-Mex sombreros for being 'racist'
University of East Anglia student union officials orders Tex-Mex restaurant to stop handing out free sombreros to students
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Why Schools Are Increasingly Neglecting Introverts
For many students, quiet time is key for the learning process.
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The 3 most important things to know about John King, the next education secretary
King will take over for Arne Duncan, who steps down January 1.
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Kindergarten: While American Kids Read, Their Finnish Peers Play
“The changes to kindergarten make me sick,” a veteran teacher in Arkansas recently admitted to me. “Think about what you did in first grade—that’s what my 5-year-old babies are expected to do.” The difference between first grade and kindergarten may not seem like much, but what I remember about my first-grade experience in the mid-90s doesn’t match the kindergarten she described in her email: three and a half hours of daily...
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Salary of primary school teachers by country in Europe - Or how much importance does each European country give to education (OP's interpretation)
Annual salary of an experienced elementary school teacher (in 1,000 USD/PPP*) Expressed in real purchasing power.
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The Ugly Charter School Scandal Arne Duncan Is Leaving Behind
Officials are raising questions about a $249 million grant to charter schools announced the day of his resignation.
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"Downhill from There": Drunk History in the Classroom
I took a risk: I created a major assignment using Drunk History excerpts. After researching the historical facts and errors from short clips of their choosing, students analyzed the narrative in terms of the course’s theoretical arguments.
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Is kindergarten too young to suspend a student?
At the largest charter school network in New York City, strict academic and behavior standards set the stage for learning. That doesn't exclude children as young as 5 or 6 years old, who can be given out-of-school suspensions if they don't follow the rules. Special correspondent for education John Merrow explores what that policy means for both the child and the school.
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Florida Bill Would Pay Starting Teachers $50K
Last week Florida lawmaker Senator Darren Soto introduced a bill that would raise the minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 a year.
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