By Dan Rockmore | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 6, 2014 A colleague of mine in the department of computer science at Dartmouth recently sent an e-mail to all of us on the faculty. The subject line read: “Ban computers in the classroom?” The note [...]
Illustration by Michael Mabry By Maria Konnikova | Originally Published at June 2, 2014| Does Handwriting Matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. [...]
Originally Published at ViceNews. June 5, 2014 1:00 PM There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving thousands of teenagers with [...]
By Nathaniel Mott and David Sirota | Originally Published at Pando Daily. June 5, 2014 In September 2011, a newly-launched nonprofit called the Teaching Channel announced that it would be producing a video series dubbed “Teaching Channel Presents” for PBS. The videos would be produced in partnership [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched Fwd.us, which will lobby for higher education standards. (David Paul Morris, Bloomberg) Will we ever learn that philanthropy is really not that impressive? Nor is money the cure for what ails us? A practiced philosophy that promotes caring human connectivity brings [...]
The data to support a dropout crisis among black students are being misreported and used to support stigmatizing tactics. By Ivory Toldson, Ph.D. | Originally Published at TheRoot. June 4 2014 3:00 AM | Photograph; Billboard in Prince George’s County, Md. (Ivory Toldson) In Bladensburg Road along [...]
Have you ever said, did, or been something that got you in trouble? If not as an adult perhaps, at the age of four you hugged a teacher. Might that be a crime? Surely, this act merits a school suspension. It is so cruel. But it cannot [...]
What Might We Teach? A Look Into Our Souls Through Poetry And Self-Portraits. – A Lesson What if when we looked at our students we could really see them? Really know their pasts, understand where they are coming from? In this [...]
Students change classes during the first day of school at Landry-Walker High School on August 12, 2013. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune) Introductory Reflection by Raynard Sanders, Ed.D., Host of The New Orleans Imperative In this week's Louisiana Weekly's article [see below] Journalist Kari [...]
