Principal Sees Course Rigor as Basis for Common-Core Readiness

Sarah Kirby, 17, looks for textual evidence to support her interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby during an International Baccalaureate English class at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

—Emile Wamsteker for Education Week…

Look at the faces of those entrusted with the careful nurturing and guidance of our youth.  Pay close attention to their body language.   They wear the strain of leading and managing an agenda that is fraught with unnecessary elements, coupled with the real prospect of reimagining the schoolhouse in an age of disruption.  At a time when we desperately need a steady hand to steward the changes in society at-large, there are many distracters that mask themselves as “necessary changes” for the…

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The Political Future of the Teaching Profession

Despite the unified Democratic Party and teachers' union support for the re-election of President Barack Obama, a philosophical divide over how to strengthen teaching quality in the United States…

An Astrophysicist Sounds Off

In this interview in American School Board Journal, editor Lawrence Hardy questions astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and former NOVA scienceNOW host) about the level of scientific literacy in the nation. “Now I don’t want a law saying someone has to be scientifically literate,” says Tyson. “I want people to want to be scientifically literate because they feel…

The Death of Logic in a College Classroom

In this troubling Chronicle of Higher Education article, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs, a professor at Southern Missouri State University, describes a recent change in her classroom. For the last twelve years, her public-speaking course has provided a delightful (if exhausting) forum for ideas, provocative exchanges, clarification, and redirection. But in a discussion this semester about demagoguery and the…

Today, the higher education marketplace is thick with companies and organizations claiming to have “personalized learning” or “adaptive learning” capabilities.  Companies are using this language in their sales and marketing efforts, creating confusion for institutions as they grapple with determining an approach to personalized learning that matches their students’ and instructors’ needs.  But if one cuts through the clutter, adaptive learning may be one key capable of actually unshackling…

Helping Education Leaders Grow

It's time to dispel the perception that school principals have all the skills and capacity they need to be successful leaders as soon as they leave principal-preparation…

#SXSWedu: Bill Gates calls for more connected educators

By Melissa Greenwood on March 11th, 2013 …

Rigorous Young Adult Literature or "Dumbed Down" Classics?

A Defense of Standardized Testing

In this Education Gadfly article, Kathleen Porter-Magee and Jennifer Borgioli list four “fundamental misunderstandings” in the arguments made by opponents of high-stakes testing:

• Myth #1: Teachers’ instincts should guide instruction. Critics of test-driven accountability say we should just let teachers teach – that standardized testing wastes instructional time, distracts teachers…

Busted, Chastened, and Enlightened

In this Kappa Delta Pi Record article, retired Missouri educator Julia Frank Hundman recalls how her seventh-grade English teacher, Mrs. B., once asked students to write a poem of their own. “It seemed to me that love, angst, and all sorts of turmoil were requirements for good poetry,” says Hundman. “I was a happy-go-lucky, superficial kid and just not sure what to do with those emotions.” She ended up copying…

Defining Bullying Down

By EMILY BAZELON

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Opinion: Why America demonizes its teachers