Photograph; The study shows that by age 4, children in families living with incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty line have less gray matter — brain tissue critical for processing of information and execution of actions — than kids growing up in families with higher [...]
Photograph; A Silicon Valley company co-founded by a Stanford artificial-intelligence professor, Sebastian Thrun, and San Jose State University were part of an experiment on massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that turned into a flop. Massive Open Online Courses, often described as MOOC are not merely a [...]
Please ponder the possibility that not all possessions are tangible. We might have the best grade, the perceived better degree, more Facebook friends or Twitter followers, greater fame or fortune. Even an abundance of good favor can be acquired, and viewed as a commodity. Each has worth [...]
You may have heard the news; scores are not sliding, the scales are. Cheating is competing. Schools that are failing are sailing and parents? Well, they are but pawns in Superintendent John White's game. And what does Superintendent John White say? "There wasn't any intent to cover [...]
Michelle Rhee (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu) By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. December 6, 2013 Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda When President George W. Bush asked the American people, back in 2000, “Is [...]
In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 While film critics have offered mostly negative reviews of This Is 40, I have watched all and then parts of the film multiple times during its run on cable TV because I [...]
By Paul L. Thomas | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 4, 2013, 2013 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I taught English in the rural South Carolina high school I attended as a student. Many of those years, I taught Advanced Placement courses as part of [...]
By Fred Dews | Originally Published at Brookings Institute. December 3, 2013 Rankings for the OECD's 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment were released today, showing once again that Asian countries topped the charts while American 15-year-olds scored in the middle on the international tests of math, [...]
