Is there a national teacher shortage? Here’s what we know and don’t know
Students across the country are heading back to school. Will there be enough teachers waiting for them?
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Getting students to engage — not just comply
I have students in my mainstream ninth-grade English and in my English as a Second Language (ESL) classes complete a simple “Reading Log” every Friday, the Washington Post…
D.C. charter schools to give standardized tests to young children
The use of standardized tests to measure very young students keeps expanding, The Washington Post reports.
The disturbing shift underway in early childhood classrooms
A disturbing shift is underway in early childhood classrooms around the country, The Washington Post reports.
Why schools aren’t businesses: The blueberry story
Larry Cuban’s 2004 book “The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t be Businesses,” is nearly a decade old but still highly relevant to the education reform…
Facebook: Contact information for 6 million users may have been exposed through bug
The Washington Post reports that Facebook said contact information for as many as 6 million of its users may have been exposed through a bug recently reported to…
Scientists create high-resolution 3-D atlas of human brain
The Washington Post reports that a 65-year-old woman’s brain was cut into 7,400 slices to create the most detailed three-dimensional atlas of the human brain ever made, bringing…
Apple trial defense: A guilty verdict would send chills across internet industry
Apple lawyers on Thursday closed their arguments in a federal antitrust trial with fierce warnings that a guilty verdict would sends chills across the internet industry, The Washington…
A majority of all American adults own a smart phone, poll says
The Washington Post reports that for the first time, a majority of American adults are now smartphone owners, according to a study released Wednesday.
Why K-12 online learning isn’t really revolutionizing teaching
For those familiar with past efforts to install new technologies in schools, the many claims for online instruction transforming traditional teaching and learning in K-12 public schools either…
Principal: Why our new educator evaluation system is unethical
A few years ago, a student at my high school was having a terrible time passing one of the exams needed to earn a Regents Diploma, The Washington…
Opinion: How schools (even great ones) fail kids with ADHD
here’s a group of students struggling through school rd to navigate that gets little attention in the media or in the debate about how to fix schools: Children…
Financial aid rising faster than tuition
An annual survey of independent colleges, released Tuesday, finds that students may pay a little less to attend college this fall, even as colleges charge more, The Washington…