How To Handle Bad Grades: A Practical Guide For Parents

A Key Skill for World Language Learners

HERE'S WHAT PROMPTED SOME BIG THOUGHTS ABOUT K-12:

I read an article by a professor about rhetoric, communication, grammar, and such. It hit me that a person, to understand…

Five Questions Every Teacher Needs to Ask Often

Elliott Seif December 10, 2021…

A Daily Ritual That Builds Trust and Community Among Students

Will My Students Ever Know a World Without School Shootings?
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Opinion: I miss teaching on Zoom

Neil Reisner, The Washington Post

“Zoom turned out to be a safe space that let students share their concerns, loves, losses and fears as the pandemic raged, in ways I’ve never witnessed in person.”

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Should we ease grading and homework rules? Dangers lurk.

Jay Mathews, The Washington Post



“The traditional approach to grading—assessing every paper and assignment, giving zeros for work not turned in—has been abandoned by many teachers and their districts in the past two decades.”

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Everyone in education needs to know what the Reading Wars are all about. Here's a quick summary. Episode 21 on Let's Fix Education. 10 minutes. Share and subscribe.

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Parents Do Not Have the Right to Deny History

When I was young I never fully knew what my father did for a living. Eventually learning that he was a truck driver did not dissuade me from following in his footsteps. I never did pursue that line of work. Nor did I ultimately learn about the industry that he worked in throughout his entire life. Therefore I am not one to opine on how the supply chain and the trucking industry's…

All my life I am primarily a writer. But until a few years ago I would never have thought to recommend my sort of education to anyone else.

The typical literary education seems to be putting too much emphasis on famous works and famous authors and the details thereof.

But the main activity in a liberal arts education is analysis of text.…

The three most important assets during an interview is your ability to project likeability, trust and fit. Likeability, trust and fit trump everything…your knowledge of pedagogy, your qualifications, everything. Unconsciously, interviewers often decide at first sight whether they like you. Still, over the course of the interview, interviewers can change their opinions in either direction. If they really like you, they may even overlook your less-than-satisfactory responses to some of…