Education Research

IAEA conference 2008

An excellent debate about whether federally funded vouchers are a good idea to continue in Washington, DC.

English language learners have become star pupils in the Washington region, drawing accolades for top-performing schools that serve immigrant communities and showing standout results on state reading tests and national rankings.

This is the book i brought up in class last week whose title I could not remember. Quite disturbing--I read it the summer before I started teaching and I think it would be even harder to read. But, Kozol is a very engaging writer with an amazing ability to balance the personal and the political.

From ESPN's "Outside the Lines," this clip shows how a professor, Dan Flockhart, came up with a new concept to help teach troubled youth mathematic...

This video was super interesting to me! I sent it to my entire school to see if the administrators would get a sample textbook. Thanks for sharing!

I heard this story on NPR and thought the study was very interesting. The study proves that physical exercise or movement increases student learning. We need more P.E.!

Volunteer to make better schools in the District of Columbia. This is a great resource to either volunteer or request assistance.

The next Work-a-Thon is April 25th.

that's a good one... and even relates to Postman!

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A look at school segregation in Minnesota--Myron Orfield is Gary Orfield's brother.