| 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... | |
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| 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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| 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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