| Christina Jeronomo was an “A” student in high school English classes; she thought she was prepared for college. But she had to take remedial English at Long Beach Community College,... | |
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| Check out the Carnival of Education at Thomas J. West Music and the Carnival of Homeschooling at Nerd Family. | |
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| Boys compete to solve problems quickly, while girls converse in an Arkansas elementary school that offers all-boy and all-girl classes in fifth grade.
Boys sit at clusters of desks in Pam Long’s... | |
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| “Writing across the curriculum” is supposed to help students build writing skills. But does writing teach math skills? Lefty of Out in Left Field describes the Connected Math curriculum... | |
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| At the age of 10 and 11, children of educated, high-earning mothers score lower on cognitive tests and are more likely to be overweight if their mother works outside the home, when the kids are... | |
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| “John Dewey,” who’s training to be a math teacher, thinks his child’s high-scoring suburban high school shouldn’t count out average students. The new principal sent a... | |
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| Forty-two percent of college-educated 24- to 60-year-olds would consider teaching as a second career, reports a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation survey.
These potential teachers are... | |
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| What do you call schools that transform inner-city students by teaching diligence, resilience and manners in addition to academic skills? In Sweating the Small Stuff, David Whitman described... | |
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| My Pajamas Media column on Sarah Palin and sex education argues that she’s not an anti-contraception extremist, but some commenters see everything as an attack on her. I did criticize John... | |
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| Proponents of the No Child Left Inside Act are making a mistake by pitting it against No Child Left Behind, Eduwonk argues.
Outdoor “education was not happening in any systemic way prior to... | |
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