A recent study adds to the mounting pile of evidence that a child's early years are critical for determining later academic success. Poor kids are falling far behind. AP Images/Lynn Hermosa By Monica Potts | Originally Published at The American Prospect. February 12, 2014 Most Americans think [...]
Flickr image cc by Phil Roeder By John O'connor | Originally Published at Florida State Impact, National Public Radio. February 10, 2014 7:54 AM Chris Guerrieri is a Jacksonville art teacher who also blogs about education. Last month he sent us an email about Florida’s Common Core [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. February 6, 2014 One legacy of Ronald Reagan’s presidency is his being tagged the Teflon president, as Patricia Schroeder explained: As a young congresswoman, I got the idea of calling President Reagan the “Teflon president” [...]
Graphic; Pew Research Center. Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. February 5, 2013 This is a test! Do you feel the sweat? Are you prepared? Did you study? Oh, the stress. Perhaps, unlike me you feel the need to "achieve." "A Test", [...]
House K-12 Subcommittee Chairwoman Janet Adkins proposed deleting Common Core from Florida Statutes so all the state's education standards will be under one name. File photo by John Iarussi By James Call| Originally Published at The Current. January 31, 2014 It’s not as Orwellian as making a [...]
Amy Conn-Gutierrez/AP Photo By David Cutler | The Atlantic. January 31, 2014 When it comes to teaching history, nothing destroys student interest faster and more completely than a heavy reliance on textbooks. During my first three years of teaching high-school history I would see students’ eyes glaze [...]
By Andy Spears | Originally Published at Tennessee Education Report. January 27, 2014 Today, newly-formed education advocacy group TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) hosted a presentation by Elaine Weiss of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education. Weiss discussed recent Tennessee education policy in the context of the [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 25, 2014 When I responded to Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less by Jessica Lahey and the related target=new href=http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic951136.files/powerOfTestingMemory-roedigerKarpicke.pdf>study by Henry L. Roediger III and Jeffrey D. Karpicke, in the blog post [...]
Graphic by Betsy L. Angert | AngertAesthetics By Catherine Gewertz | Originally Published at Education Week. January 24, 2014 12:23 AM | Download Letter to Secretary Arne Duncan, Department of Education [pdf] Schools chiefs from 34 states have banded together to make a public declaration that they [...]
