| Don’t Think Too Highly of Yourself, warns Mark Bauerlein on the Education Next blog. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom, he writes, “higher confidence does not go with better math... | |
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| Much of what everyone knows about child-raising isn’t so, write Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. Child development research develops over time, they... | |
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| Oooooh! Oooooh! Sweathog Arnold Horshack is back in school. Welcome Back, Lotter actor Ron Palillo is teaching acting at a Florida charter high school, reports the Sun-Sentinel. Students at... | |
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| The third Carnival of Education Innovation is up at the ABCTE (American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence) blog. | |
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| More than 250 Los Angeles schools – from the very worst to 50 new multi-million-dollar campuses — could be turned over to charter networks and outside operators under a plan approved 6-1... | |
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| Grading papers for a graduate literature course, Professor Stanley Fish “became alarmed at the “inability of my students to write a clear English sentence,” he blogs at the New York... | |
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| Teacher Kennet Santana, 35, heard two explosions at San Mateo’s Hillside High and saw a 17-year-old boy in a black tactical vest following fleeing students. With “no time for a lot of... | |
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| To show appreciation for teachers, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ Career and Technical Education Department handed out coasters for which it had paid $1,500. “Education” was... | |
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| As more students take the SAT, scores dipped for the class of ‘09, reports College Board. Gender, race and income gaps widened. AP reports:
The average SAT score dipped from 502 last year to... | |
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| Homeschoolers have style proclaims this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, which is hosted by Homeschool Bytes. | |
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