| With four boys under the age of nine, Tony Woodlief and his wife, who taught school in Detroit, have decided to educate their children at home. They hope “to cultivate in them an intellectual... | |
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| Education “is the civil rights issue of this century,” John McCain said in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention.
Equal access to public education has been gained, but what... | |
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| When I was a student, I considered it my job. But I didn’t expect to get paid for it by the school or by my parents. I worked hard because I wanted to learn. Gadfly’s Liam Julian argues... | |
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| Paul Tough’s Whatever It Takes looks at Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone, an attempt to pour enough resources into a low-income neighborhood to lift everyone.
Sara Mosle... | |
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| When the FDA warned against use of antidepressants in 2004, doctors wrote fewer prescriptions. The teen suicide rate, which had been falling, rose significantly in 2004 and 2005. In 2007, the FDA... | |
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| A bad building may house a good school, writes Jay Mathews in the Washington Post. It’s the teaching that matters.
Take a look at the 52-year-old former church school at 421 Alabama Ave. in... | |
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| The Democratic Party’s education platform breaks with the teachers’ unions on some key issues, reports Greg Toppo in USA Today. (Someone read the platform!)
Among them: paying teachers... | |
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| Lead from the Start is hosting this week’s “kiddie” Carnival of Education.
Beware of toxic teachers, who will sap your enthusiasm with gossip, rants and general trollishness, writes... | |
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| I support comprehensive sex education: Tell kids they don’t have to start their sex lives in high school; tell them how to protect themselves from disease and pregnancy if they do. I support... | |
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| Popular kids in high school — and average kids who think they’re popular — tend to do well, psychologists say.
About 15 to 20 percent of high school students are rated as likable... | |
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