A mother and child are greeted by Jillian Maes, part of Stanford's team of researchers led by Professor Anne Fernald. | L.A. Cicero By Bjorn Carey | Originally Published at Stanford News. September 25, 2013 Research by Stanford psychologists reveals that 2-year-old children of lower-income families may [...]
By Leslie Postal and Kathleen Haughney | Originally Published at Orlando Sentinel 9:43 p.m. EDT, September 23, 2013 TALLAHASSEE — Florida retreated Monday from a new multi-state testing system that was to replace FCAT, a move that could appease conservatives opposed to Common Core academic standards on [...]
Throughout the nation there is much debate; homework is good. No, it's bad. There is too much. Too little. It's better in moderation? And then there is the nagging question; does homework serve our children? Well, that depends. What is the means and what are the ends? [...]
You may remember those heady days. It was called the Republican Convention. A large group of Republicans gathered together to celebrate education and the role it played in earlier generations. There were tales of hard-work and high expectations among the exhortations. Those were the days; we learned [...]
Is Teacher enough to turn the tide to take misery and twirl it into happiness? Might the affect of a good teacher-student relationship in a classroom be enough to change a life? Could it be that an Educator is but one influence amongst many? And does each [...]
By Carlo Rotella | Originally Published at The New York Times. September 12, 2013 Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don’t want this thing to take over my classroom.” It was late June, a [...]
Photograph; Mel Yates By Pedro Noguera | | Originally Published at The Nation. September 11, 2013 The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn. Ever since the release of A Nation at Risk, in 1983, the government report issued by Ronald Reagan’s [...]
Emotional Intelligence is EmpathyEducates' call. In our own lives, we have come to appreciate the lessons, which today would be characterized as Social-Emotional Learning. Having always felt as though we were the hare in the illustrious fable The Tortoise and the Hare we see the splendor of [...]
Photograph: Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, at the Green Dot New York Charter School in the Bronx. By Motoko Rich Originally Published atThe New York Times. August 15, 2013 The Common Core, a set of standards for kindergarten through high school that has [...]
