Bigger Gains for Students Who Don’t Get Help Solving Problems

A Look Into Teenagers’ Complicated Online Lives

By Elizabeth Blair

Researcher danah boyd is obsessed with how teenagers use the Internet. For the legions of adults who are worried about them, that’s…

    The rash of stories, editorials and letters that have been published in recent weeks and months concerning the “Common Core” curricula and the teacher evaluations, very often written by non-educators, deserve thoughtful and knowledgeable responses.  As someone who trains teachers and deeply believes that they should be held to the highest pedagogical and ethical standards, I would like to try to explain why there is such a mounting revolt by teachers and principals, parents and students…

There was once upon a time a person called a school teacher, who was very well educated, who was steely, who took control of the class, a veritable sage on a stage.

 Well, you can kiss all that good-by.

 As part of its general disdain for education and indeed civilization, our Education Establishment has waged a war against the very concept of a teacher.

1) As chronicled in "Ed School Follies" 20 years ago (see my review on Amazon), ed schools got…

Select Your Conclusions, Apply Data

The recent release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the companion Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) was predictably exploited…

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Mona McNee, who lives in the UK, is a life-long phonics advocate. She is almost 90. She is still fighting!

 Mona is the author of "The Great Reading Disaster," which explains the UK situation, which is  perhaps even more pathetic and dismal than the USA situation.

 She is also the creator of the "Step-by-Step" reading program, which you can get on the Internet for free.

Her story, and her beliefs, are an excellent way for people to…