Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 19th, 2008
July 1997
The Atlantic
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There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs -- music, art, physical education -- that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum, and the ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
I want to meet this family who lives in the same city where our state school board meets!
Healthy Family
Harding Family Website
CNN Video
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Comment: In early fall of 2007, a friend invited me to visit an elementary school in nearby Panama City, Florida, to hear Marva Collins. After teaching "the worst class in the school" for three hours that morning, Mrs. Collins met with the faculty and guests to talk about ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
May 16, 2008
Will Fitzhugh
Ed News
In Peanuts, when we see Lucy offering Psychiatric Help for a nickel, we know it is a joke: ("The Psychiatrist is IN"), but when English teachers in the schools insist that students write about the most intimate details of their private lives for school assignments, ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
By Tiffany Bradley
That time of year is approaching when schools send home a list of recommended or required books for summer reading. Trusting parents often take these lists as blanket approval of a book’s quality and content and dutifully take their children to the local library or bookstore to ...
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