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.
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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.
The root of the word "foundation" means "discovered." It would be nice if foundations learned that their job was to discover solutions instead of trying to invent and push their agenda on the rest of us.
For many years America has been sliding into a dark abyss... ... succumbing to the lowest common-denominator -- spurning intelligence for 'cool.' As...
What does humiliation and pain teach in an academic setting? Apparently not academics.
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Robyn Gee Peter Thiel, who is the co-...
Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Robyn Gee University of Southern Califo...
Education is the necessary condition for the individual to function as a fully human being in modern society.
While our performance of "Guys and Dolls" may not win us any Tony's, it nonetheless confirmed my belief in the transformational power of making art with young people, obstacles be damned.
Recently, I asked my Facebook friends to share their favorite all time book. Here are those unedited results, in the order in which they arrived. Not ...
Millions of students claiming diplomas believe in the power of education to transform their futures, and this year, 65 young Cambodian women beat the odds to share that vision.
Mr. Duncan's basic understanding of what test-based reforms are doing to individual schools and school systems is, to borrow an Internet meme, an epic fail.
Our children face a devastating obesity crisis -- and yet some Washington lawmakers are calling even the most commonsense moves to ensure them a healthier diet a "classic nanny-state overreach."
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