Empathy Helps Children to Understand Sarcasm
Originally Published at Science Daily October 8, 2013 | Study
The Empty Desk: A Story of Classroom Community
So often we bat about statistics. Are children learning? Does testing tell us what their future will hold? Are Teachers doing their jobs based on evaluations? Is poverty a problem and if it is, what do we do about it. Ultimately, the answer is in an adult [...]
Chicago School Closings a Blow to Parental Involvement?
By Lorraine Forte | Originally Published at The Huffington Post October 9, 2013 Any adult who was successful in school will likely remember that their parents played a defining role in that success. What happens during the roughly six-hour school day is only part of the learning [...]
Vouchers Don’t Do Much For Students
By: Stephanie Simon | Originally Published at POLITICO October 6, 2013 10:50 PM EDT Ever since the Obama administration filed suit to freeze Louisiana’s school voucher program, high-ranking Republicans have pummeled the president for trapping poor kids in failing public schools. The entire House leadership sent a letter [...]
Selling SEL: An Interview with Daniel Goleman
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 [...]
Bringing Education Back to Democracy
It began with an innocent interview. The thought to bring education back to democracy or democracy back to education was expressed brilliantly by an Artist. Out of the mouth of a master an old idea was born again. Wynton Marsalis reminds us of the danger of cuts [...]
CPS Announces Possible Exceptions To School Closing Moratorium
Photograph; Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennet By Lauren Fitzpatrick | Originally Published at Chicago Sun-Times October 1, 2013 9:46PM Chicago Public School officials have pledged not to close any more schools because of academic or enrollment problems for at least five years — but on Tuesday [...]
Teachers Are No Superheroes (For World Teacher Day)
I was asked to write something for World Teacher Day, I did in Dutch, this is my attempt to translate my piece in English. Teachers are no superheroes They won’t save the world. But they will save their children in case of emergency. They are [...]
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The Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gap GalleryThe Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gap
Achievement, Developmentally Differentiated Education, Editorial, Equality/Equity, Multiple Intelligences, Poverty, Racial Socioeconomic Relations, Social Emotional Learning
The Central Issue at the Heart of America’s Growing Education Gap
Photo Credit: aastock | Shutterstock.com By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at AlterNet. | October 3, 2013 It's time for some new thinking about how to address the persistent inequalities that plague our education system. As the evidence mounts discrediting much of the movement for [...]