By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn September 25, 2014 | Children at play on Primrose Hill in acrylic, by Gudawer Kalirai. Let's face it, adult life is boring. Paying bills (check) Eating healthy to watch your aging figure (check) Going to a job you don't [...]
When the emphasis is kept on how it's good for business, early-childhood education is popular. Just don't call it childcare. By Rachel M. Cohen | Originally Published at The American Prospect. September 22, 2014 | (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez) In Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, education has emerged [...]
What are we teaching our children? What do we want them to achieve or believe? By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn. September 22, 2014 Okay, so it's not exactly an illusion but I believe that most of us have a misconception of what success really [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. September 16, 2014 Common Core discussions often center around the "standard" conversation. Parents, teachers, and those interested in education articulate a need for greater consideration. Critics argue, Common Core is a one-size-fit-all negotiation. Countless ask, what [...]
Every semester I hope things will be different. I hope that when I walk into my English-composition and writing courses, the majority of my students will, at the very least, be equipped with the basics: They’ll know how to write paragraphs, how to read critically [...]
Image courtesy of Tim Pierce | Creative Commons> By Paul Thomas, Ed.D., Furman University | Originally Published at the The Conversation. September 3, 2014 If you’re an eight-year-old living in Charleston, South Carolina, you’re soon going to need to study extra hard at reading. The US state [...]
Photograph; Teenage girl (16-18) sitting by laptop, woman in background. A mother? A stranger? What is the relationship and if the girl is shamed what will she think and do? By Vicki Hoefle | Originally Published at Huffington Post. August 21, 2014 2:11 PM We live in [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 6, 2014 The New York Times headline suggests we are finally poised to read a positive story about education: A Summer of Extra Reading and Hope for Fourth Grade. But education reporter Motoko Rich’s [...]
By Laurie Levy | AlterNet. August 6, 2014 Kindergarten was once about play and experimentation. Why can't it be that way again? My grandson, like millions of other five- and six-year-olds across the country, is about to start his formal education in kindergarten. Like most kids, he’s [...]
