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Joanne Jacobs


Recess survives (for most kids)

More than 90 percent of elementary students get a 24 to 30-minute recess every day, reports the Center for Public Education. However, schools that once scheduled more than half an hour for recess...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 4 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: education
Cool science

Kids’ Science Challenge lets third- through sixth-graders design experiments for real scientists and engineers. How do you get a ten year old turned on to science? By empowering them to create...

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Tags: education
Remedial college for ‘A’ and ‘B’ students

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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Tags: education
Carnivals!

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, girls converse

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 about math

“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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Rich moms, poor moms

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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Warning: Your average kid won’t make it here

“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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Future teachers of America

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...

Started in Joanne Jacobs • 1 month ago • 0 responses
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By any other name

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...

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