It’s fascinating to me to find the number of people who are shocked by the movement of churches to meet in different locations like movie theaters, schools and bars. Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of two unlike places intersecting or negative personal experiences in the new location. I can’t say that I’m totally convinced that this …
If you think that you are the only one battling day in and day out (yes, I know it is summer, but I also know teachers and I know they haven’t stopped battling) for your classroom back, you’re in a bigger fight than you think you are. Within hours, social media sites buzzed with the …
You’re right technology is ruining students: The students threw away their notebooks and started blogs. These blogs became, in essence, open notebooks in which students were willing to learn in public. Students in one class put together a blog that was read by more than 8,000 people around the world. (How many people read your …
Home schoolers are students too: “Because you choose a different academic path for your child, you should not be prevented from participating in the athletic side,” said Rep. Phil Owens Although this might seem like a natural progression, the issue of having home school students participate in extracurricular activities at the public school they are …
A novel approach: We address these two questions by analyzing school-district data from grades 3–8 for 2.5 million children, linked to information on their outcomes as young adults and the characteristics of their parents. We find that teacher VA measures both work and matter. Actually evaluating teachers based on their students effectiveness of success in …
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I know I talk (or rather type) a lot about the shift occurring in education and it’s hard to comprehend until you are in the midst of it or someone close to you who is experiencing it. I heard on NPR’s Morning Edition that the unemployment rate nationwide is down to 8.1%, but that doesn’t …
It’s easy to get caught up and confused when reading about educational policy: The report is a mishmash of misleading statistics and incoherent arguments, intended to exaggerate the failure of public education. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, introduces the report with this claim: “It will come as no surprise to …
It isn’t a coincidence that charter schools keeping showing up: The reading passage on the test was a paean to charter schools, with pie charts and bullet points, all intended to show that charters were decidedly superior to the public schools in which the test-taking students were enrolled. It even had the nerve to identify …
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