earning 12 percent

despite internal research showing that online students do slightly less well in grammar and speaking

Phalen hires only certified teachers and chooses them on the basis of talent, not seniority

Advantage launched last year, and its scholars improved their performance on state math and reading tests by an average of 14 percentage points

Can we really entrust something so important to a haphazard network of camp counselors, volunteers and entrepreneurs?

safety,

Scanning the room my assistants also saw students cruising Facebook, instant messaging, and texting their friends. The students were undoubtedly engaged, just not with me. “My teaching assistants consoled me by noting that students have learned that they can ‘get by’ without paying attention in their classes.”

Last spring I asked my students how many of them did not like school. Over half of them rose their hands. When I asked how many of them did not like learning, no hands were raised. And there’s the rub. We love learning. We hate school. What’s worse is that many of us hate school because we love learning

Some time ago we started taking our walls too seriously – not just the walls of our classrooms, but also the metaphorical walls that we have constructed around our ’subjects,’ ‘disciplines,’ and ‘courses.’ McLuhan’s statement about the bewildered child ….. still holds true in most classrooms today. The walls have become so prominent that they are even reflected in our language, so that today there is something called ‘the real world’ which is foreign and set apart from our schools

volunteers' overall accuracy did not suffer

every new task that you take on “you dilute your investment in each task