Cesar Chavez Elementary students play capture the flag at recess. (Los Angeles Times | April 16, 2012) By Robert Ross | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. October 17, 2013 Imagine that you walk into the newborn nursery ward at an American hospital and you see [...]
Photograph; In this file photo taken Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, Joseph Erb, helps out students Cambria Bird, left, and Lauren Grayson, right, in the fifth grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla. | AP As the public at-large expresses their distress for what [...]
Do we need to teach what comes naturally or would we be better to defy our need to control nature? Teach Kids to Daydream By Jessica Lahey | Originally Published at The Atlantic. October 16, 2013 Today’s children are exhausted, and not just because one in three [...]
Graphic; Low-income students made up at least half the public school student population in 17 states in 2011, a marked increase from 2000, when four states topped 50 percent. By Lyndsey Layton | Originally Published at The Washington Post. October 16 E-mail the writer A majority of [...]
Varied student backgrounds get too little weight Originally Published at LoHud. October 15, 2013 The study can be read at Review and Analysis of New York State Growth Model New York’s first attempt to grade teachers on their students’ progress was flawed in several key ways, a [...]
The study is cited then censured. People pay more to live in an area with "good" schools. Might this be conventional wisdom or could it be that the statement evokes thoughts of discrimination? To state that there is a divide could be considered blasphemy. In America? We [...]
There are many trends in education that come and go. What remains the same are students and how they learn. Clothing styles change and many interpret that as a change in children, but consider this, a child dressed in rags is no different than the one donned [...]
Students cross 25th Street at South Central Park Avenue as police and a Safe Passage guard keep watch. (John J. Kim, Chicago Tribune) You can lead a child to a welcoming school, but you cannot make him or her drink from waters that feel dangerous. No. A [...]
Regardless of the abundant research on the ineffectiveness of merit pay, states continue to adopt policies that promote the plan. However, those same lawmakers who think money motivates, refuse to fund their own programs. Hence, failed and popular policies go quietly into the darkness from which they [...]
