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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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The Exhausting Life of a First-Year Science Teacher
What it’s like to learn how to teach—while teaching
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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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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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Advanced-Stage Charter Syndrome
What “Maturity” Means to the Charter Movement. By Nancy Flanagan.
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No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
Anton Oberländer is a persuasive speaker. Last year, when he and a group of friends were short of cash for a camping trip to Cornwall, he managed to talk Germany’s national rail operator into handing them some free tickets. So impressed was the management with his chutzpah that they invited him back to give a motivational speech to 200 of their employees. Anton, it should be pointed out, is 14 years old.
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The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group
When Kate Clanchy began teaching the children of refugees, she sought out those silenced by trauma and loss. Their weekly sessions released a torrent of untold stories.
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Essence of linear algebra
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America’s cash-strapped teachers are a target for predatory lenders
Many teachers find themselves in the low- to middle-income part of the economy, and companies like MyPaycheckDirect aim to take advantage of that. By Suzanne McGee.
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Finland's Relaxed Approach to the First Day of School
The global education pioneer eases students into the classroom.
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Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation....[P]lenty of people believe ...that the world is a zero-sum game ... and that colleges (especially business schools like the one where I teach) should reflect that reality.
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Perplexing test defended
Good students should have been able to do it - but needed more time, professor says.
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Professor explains the rise of 'precious snowflakes' – cites narcissism, over-nurturing
'People now experience the entire world as a form of bullying.'
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