Policymakers Must Act to Diversify Teaching, Report Says
Across all routes into teaching, policymakers need to improve recruitment efforts of minorities, a new study says.
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January 02, 2014
Educator's Resolution: Enough With the 'Feel-Good' Teacher Movies
Joshua John Macklin, a New York City middle school reading teacher, says it would be beneficial to those working for real improvement in schools if Americans made a collective New Year's resolution to desist from relying on feel-good teacher movies for their information about struggling schools
December 18, 2013
Chicago Schools to Teach African-American History in Core Courses
More than two decades after Illinois enacted a law that requires public schools to teach African-American studies, the 404,000-student Chicago school district announced a new curriculum guide for incorporating the subject into core classes.
December 11, 2013
Noguera: Educators Must be 'Guardians of Equity'
At a conference keynote, education advocate Pedro Noguera said that inequity is deeply ingrained in the U.S. education system because, in American society, the pursuit of excellence is often seen as being "at odds with equity."
October 24, 2013
Group Asks Congress to 'Mix It Up at Lunch,' Too
On Oct. 29, some 6,000 schools will reportedly be participating in the 12th annual Mix It Up at Lunch Day, an initiative that encourages students to break out of their habitual social patterns and sit with someone new at lunch time. This year, the group behind the idea is asking Congress to participate as well.
August 28, 2013
Close Reading and the 'I Have a Dream' Speech
A presentation expert uses a visual-display tool to analyze the shape and rhetorical patterns in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
March 28, 2013
The Transformative Power of a Classic Novel
Chinua Achebe's most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, a trenchant exploration of colonialism and culture, has long been staple of of high school and college reading lists.
February 12, 2013
Special Ed. Teacher's Anti-Gay Remarks Spark Firestorm
An Indiana special education teacher who is part of a Christian group that wants to ban LGBT students from the high school prom told a local T.V. station that she doesn't believe gays have a "purpose in life."
February 08, 2013
Should Introverts Be Graded on Classroom Participation?
In the Atlantic, teacher Jessica Lahey makes an argument for continuing to calculate classroom participation into student grades, despite complaints from the parents of introverted students.
May 24, 2012
Teaching Standard English While Embracing Dialect Diversity
The growing numbers of second-generation Latino students attending U.S. schools pose new challenges for teachers, according to a Fox News Latino report. These students are often fluent in English but use speech infused with Spanish accents, rhythm, and usage that they pick up in their Latino communi...
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