What Your Students Will Need to Get a Job at Amazon
This Wall Street Journal interview with a recruiting director for Amazon.com has some K-12 pertinence (in a trickle-down kind of way). Read Full Post >
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May 02, 2013
February 08, 2013
Are Schools 'Boy-Averse'?
A new research study looks at why boys tend to get lower grades than girls. Read Full Post >
January 28, 2013
Will Digital 'Textbooks' Change Teaching?
Comprising videos, customizable assignments and activities, and test-administration functionality, the latest generation of digital textbooks seem, according to those in the know, less like textbooks than entire courses in and of themselves. Read Full Post >
January 24, 2013
Seattle Teacher Explains Test Protest
In an op-ed published last week, Jesse Hagopian, a teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle explains why he and his colleagues are refusing to administer the the Measures of Academic Progress benchmarking exam. Read Full Post >
January 04, 2013
Latest Curriculum Craze: Making Stuff
A Huffington Post article says that, in a kind of backlash against the test-driven curricula that have prevailed in many schools over the past decade, there's a growing interest among educators and parents in giving kids more hands-on, experiential learning projects. One example of the reported move... Read Full Post >
December 28, 2012
Debating the Common-Core Nonfiction Requirements
Educators dissect the language in the Common Core State Standards requiring teachers to assign more nonfiction texts. Read Full Post >
December 07, 2012
History Teachers Closing the Textbooks
On the 71st anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an article poses questions on on history teaching in schools. Read Full Post >
November 30, 2012
Friday Video Break: 'The Art of the Metaphor'
TEDEducation has been putting together some very cool short lesson videos combining animation with instruction by high-profile educators. Read Full Post >
November 19, 2012
The New Flavor of Math Instruction
At a locally organized TEDx conference in Costa Mesa, Calif., last month, former Los Angeles teacher Nigel Nisbet explained how he turned chocolate bars into geometry problems to get kids hooked on math. Read Full Post >
October 30, 2012
Real-World Lessons From Hurricane Sandy
Schools are closed across the East Coast today as cities and towns recover from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, now considered one of the worst storms in U.S. history. For educators in other parts of the country looking to give students some perspective on the events of the past couple of days... Read Full Post >
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