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A Radical Fix for Schools?
(Video) How is Secretary of Education Arne Duncan going to spend $100 billion in stimulus money—almost twice the ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Classrooms Where Odds and Ends Are the Textbook
Spaghetti, crumpled cereal boxes and other household goods have become teaching tools in some Manassas classrooms ...Posted by Kristin Gorski -
New African-American history course stretches student minds
Pittsburgh Oliver High School teacher Ken Smith doesn't want students to take history; he wants them "doing ...Posted by Dale Penn
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In Central New York's multiage classrooms, children help each other
Kathryn and Jazmine are in different grades, but they are in the same class in the Mexico school district's New ...Posted by Kristin Gorski -
Rural teachers ford the educational gap
Many young teachers dream of spacious schools with modern equipment, but after graduating university, Hoang Thi ...Posted by Kristin Gorski
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The underworked American
American schoolchildren are unlikely to end up working as hard as the French, let alone the South Koreans, any time ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Should Teachers Ignore Poverty's Impact?
Owens described her effort to join the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program, and her reaction to the prevailing ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Gifted Children: How to Bring Out Their Potential
Highly gifted children solve the most varied thought problems faster and more thoroughly than those with more ...Posted by J Erickson
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Class Breaks in Tokyo More Suited for Children
As the bell rang ending my first forty-five minute English lesson I expected the Japanese teacher to switch to the ...Posted by Dale Penn -
The Guy with 'The Best Job in Public Education'
Despite being the son of a principal and a schoolteacher, Jed Wallace says he stumbled into teaching to pay the ...Posted by Dale Penn
