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Over thirty years of investment in improving science education, and this is where we are. If you do the same thing over and over, why do you expect a different result? It's time for real change.
By Jeff Gelles Inquirer Staff Writer More than one in five Americans now say they have read a book electronically in the last year. Here's what's happening on the plugged-in side of the digital di...
Subject: Teacher Depreciation Week | NationofChange Date: May 13, 2012 10:05:09 AM EDT http://www.nationofchange.org/teacher-depreciation-week-1336829721 Sent from my iPad Teacher Depreciation ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-war-on-teachers-why-the-public-is-watching-it-happen/2012/03/11/gIQAD3XH6R_blog.html The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it hap...
By Valerie Strauss This was written by Mark Naison, professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York and chair of the department of African and African-American S...
Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report: The dissents By Valerie Strauss Best part of 'schools-threaten-national-security' report The most interesting part of the new Condoleezza...
McGraw-Hill Education just launched the STEM Innovative Educator Awards to recognize and reward teachers who are finding innovative ways to reach today's students. The awards, known as the STEMIEs,...
Jeremy Roschelle, John Brecht, Jennifer Knudsen, Teresa Lara-Meloy, Charles Patton, Ken Rafanan,Patti Schank, Anna Werner This project is developing and conducting initial tests of a highly innova...
Plate tectonics is one of the more difficult science concepts to have a lab in. However, it's not necessary to have labs in every topic. Labs, beyond elementary school, are really for understandi...
what you're sayingTHE LIBRARY: FREE, DIGITALLY HIP & COOL Ed Weiner A recent opinion piece called into question the Free Library's place in our digital world. A quick stop on freelibrary.org - ou...
STEAM = Science & Technology interpreted through Engineering & the Arts, all based in Mathematical elements. Recent News about STE@M DECEMBER 2011 Georgette Yakman, founder of STEAM Educatio...
Burpee Home Gardens® is now accepting applications for the 2012 "I Can Grow" Youth Garden Award through Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. http://www.burpeehomegardens.com/ICanGrow/_YouthGardenAward.aspx ...
I see this development as good and bad. Firstly, what will CS replace in current curricula? You cannot add something without giving up something else. That said, CS has the benefit of teaching e...
The Library of Congress Teacher Conference Schedule for Early 2012 January 4th, 2012 by Anne Savage This post comes to us from the 2011-2012 Library of Congress Teacher in Residence, Earnestine Sw...
Kid-Tech News for Parents http://www.netfamilynews.org/?p=31155> You could call Internet users "citizen lobbyists." This week, in a post-Arab Spring sign of how participatory media - and its p...
By Valerie Strauss http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-facts-that-school-reformers-ignore/2012/01/23/gIQABWQRMQ_blog.html This was written by Richard Rothstein, a research...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/dear-michelle-rhee-about-that-teacher-evaluation-study/2012/01/20/gIQA0iVSGQ_blog.html Dear Michelle Rhee: About that teacher evaluation study...
Black, Latino Students Perform at Levels of 30 Years Ago http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/black-latino-students-per_n_1224790.html Teresa Wiltz First Posted: 01/23/2012 4:44 pm U...
From CBS 60 Minutes [TV program], Sunday, January 1, 2012 -- you can view the segment at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57348498/the-perfect-score-cheating-on-the-sat/ and also read the s...
http://mediatapper.com/social-media-typewriters-and-fax-machines-lead-the-revolt-against-oppression/ Social media is transforming the world! This is especially true in the Middle East where platf...
