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Joanne Jacobs


Out of this world

Teachers in Space is looking for teachers who want to fly in the new suborbital spacecraft, then return to the classroom. Weekend and summer training takes only three weeks, so teachers can keep...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Swashbuckling boys

Peg Tyre, the author of The Trouble with Boys, talks to Teacher Magazine about designing schools that help boys achieve. It turns out that there is good research from the U.K. that suggests if you...

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Tags: education
Not so much C.H.A.N.G.E.

Writing a racial slur about Barack Obama on the white board may end the career of Greg Howard, a teacher at Marianna Middle School in Florida. Howard, who’s been teaching in the district for 17...

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Tags: culture
Choose to give

I’ve signed up for the Bloggers’ Challenge at Donors Choose. Go here to find teachers who need funding to teach immigrant students about America, buy books for a classroom library or pay...

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Tags: education
What grades mean

Grades mean different in things in different places, writes Stafford Palmieri on Education Gadfly. BaltoNorth, a Baltimore public school parent, asked for the decoder ring to local middle-school...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Rating teachers

New York City teachers’ performance will be measured based on how much their fourth- through eighth-grade students improve on annual state math and reading tests, reports the New York Times....

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Choose to help teachers

I’ve signed up for the Bloggers’ Challenge at Donors Choose. Go here to find teachers who need funding to teach immigrant students about America, buy books for a classroom library or pay...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
A ‘teachable moment’ on credit

The financial mess is a “teachable moment,” says the U.S. Treasury. From the LA Times: See Sally. See Sally run from the bank. Run Sally run. In the midst of one of the worst banking...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Clickers

Teachers and students like clickers — hand-held devices that let students send their answers to the teacher, reports the Idaho Statesman. (Sixth-grade teacher Jill) Hanford swears by the...

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Tags: education
Baracking the classroom vote

Virginia teachers should celebrate “Obama Blue Day” on Tuesday by wearing blue to school, their union told them. “There are people out there not yet registered. You teach some of...

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Tags: education