Every time I reflect on the year that just ended, I find myself asking the same questions: What had we learned in our ten months together? What would I hold on to? What mattered?
Every time I reflect on the year that just ended, I find myself asking the same questions: What had we learned in our ten months together? What would I hold on to? What mattered?
Will these newer to the profession, in this time of tests and standards and accountability, still be creative teachers?
Chavan is co-founder, president and CEO of Pratham, the largest nongovernmental organization working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India.
I've had enough of watching my colleagues play politics with our kids' futures. I'm putting together a list of education reforms -- real reforms -- to promote in Congress, and I want your help.
So now our children effectively become corporate assets. How long before they are commodities to be bought and sold on the open market as if they were pork bellies or wheat futures?
As college graduates across the country admire their hard earned diplomas they recently received, it's hard to forget about the burdensome student loan debt plaguing many graduates.
The main thing I draw from the Anthony Weiner incident is that the greater shame is in our puerile culture and how the media feeds the frenzy. On its own face their actions are ludicrous and the well-paid media honchos should be equally ashamed.
City Year is not about a magic potion to cure all of our students' problems in a night. Instead it is about showing up everyday to the schools, believing in our students and working tirelessly to help them succeed.
Remember: Simple, personal, and genuine. And a little tenacity, especially in the world of impact and social good, goes a long, long way.
We live in a country filled with curious and creative children. Let's make a commitment to ensure that none of our youngsters are left without activities that will support their growth and development.
My children's teachers are exceptional, but they're not the exception. As a student pursuing a degree in education myself, I've discovered that there are extraordinary teachers in public schools all across the city.
Our energy -- how we get it, and how we use it -- is a valid discussion for our nation's classrooms. But let's not favor one industry over another -- especially not to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Like payroll software, which every enterprise needs, why can't we provide these forms of instruction through Cyber-Schools?
Soundly debunking the state's charges that the program teaches children to "overthrow the government" and promote ethnic chauvinism, university scholars and administrators explained the widely accepted approach of culturally relevant curriculum.
The site of the rally is the Norwalk, Conn. school where homeless mother Tanya McDowell had placed her young 5-year-old son last fall in order to get the best education for him.
The injustices of unfettered capitalism are not an accident -- they are a product of a system whose academic advocates have a lot to answer for. Economists have done enough of late. Let's hold the paeans.
If teaching in China taught me anything, it taught me to be very skeptical of high stakes testing. It distorts curricula, makes teaching a chore, and favors the rich.
Parents, as they should, have a clear role to play in their children's effective and appropriate use of media and technology. But, where will they develop he skills and knowledge to do this?
NY schools have increasingly co-located charter schools inside public schools as a cost-cutting measure. Co-locations can lead to disparities, division and tension among students, which can impede learning.
What if there were a basic literacy beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic that we missed, or that wasn't necessary until this moment in our history?
We don't have as much pressure from school and friends telling us what to like, so it's our responsibility to figure out how to spend our time.