(Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) By Mary Elizabeth Williams | Originally Published at Salon. March 27, 2014Liberal arts take a beating again -- but don't sweat it, humanities majors Here’s a pop quiz for you. What words come to mind when I say “liberal arts education”? Are they, [...]
Graphic; Creativity by Zyari By Timothy Egan | Originally Published at The New York Times. March 21, 2014 Here’s how John Lennon wrote “Nowhere Man,” as he recalled it in an interview that ran just before he was murdered in 1980: After working five hours trying to [...]
(Photo: Franco Folini / Flickr) By Christian Exoo and Calvin F. Exoo | Originally Published at Truthout. | Truthout | Op-Ed February 22, 2014 09:19 Talking about poverty and inequality is all the rage these days. President Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 [...]
Way back when, in the stone-age of education, ability grouping and tracking were popular. Some might argue that even when it was out it was in, dependent on where you lived. Nonetheless, it existed and/or exists. When the practice is present the torch of proficiency is the [...]
The lens of ADHD has changed our perceptions of ourselves and our children. By Jessica Grogan, Ph.D. | Originally Published at Encountering America. Psychology Today. December 17, 2013 Since 1990, the number of American children on medication for ADHD has risen precipitously (from 600,000 to 3.5 million) [...]
Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
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 Jason Stanley and John W. Krakauer | Originally Published at The New York Times. THE STONE October 27, 2013, 7:00 pm In the frequent debates over the merits of science and philosophy, or the humanities in general, it is often assumed that the factual grounding and [...]
Originally Published at Edutopia Cognizant of the veracity that each of us learns by various means and that at times, we may prefer to gain knowledge by wading through the weight of words we present the transcript. Daniel Goleman: What we’re calling today social and emotional learning [...]
