How Can Teachers Encourage and Assess Creativity?

(Originally titled “Assessing Creativity”)

In this Educational Leadership article, Montana-based author/consultant Susan Brookhart asks which student’s work is more creative: asked to write an acrostic poem on a small poster, a girl writes a school spirit poem using the letters of the school’s name (S for “super”, N for “nice”, etc.) and draws a perfect replica of the school…

Unwrapping the Common Core Standards

New York’s Education Deficit

By THE EDITORIAL…

One of the most remarkable historical facts of the last 80 years is the persistence of a sinister and unsuccessful pedagogy known as Look-Say, Whole Word, Sight-Words, Whole Language, Balanced Literacy, High-Frequency Words, and a number of other confusing terms.

Whatever these things are called, they must be banished,…

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…

This is a Free Internet safety and cyber citizenship program created by the FBI to help students learn about online safety.  This program addresses current Internet and safety threats in an interactive manner while maintaining age appropriateness pertaining to student's Internet usage and knowledge.

Great resource for Parents - See Scams &…

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…