Music education valuable asset in school curricula

Glennon Melton

Bestselling Author, Carry On, Warrior and Founder of Momastery

This Brilliant Math Teacher Has a Formula to Save Kids' Lives

PAULO FREIRE: CHAPTER 2 OF PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the "banking' concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the…

Parent to Obama: Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?

Thompson: The Way to Save Common Core (If It's Worth Saving)…

In crossing the digital divide, the integration of tablets such as the…

For 100 years, there has been a prejudice In the schools against facts and knowledge. Now we see the same tendency in the media. 

The Times has become the very paradigm of what can only be called Unmedia. There seem to be many striking resemblance to the old media but they don't do much of a job. Thus the term Unmedia. Compare Uncola.

 I think we live in what…

Education lotteries redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich

On Thursday, February 20, New York State Department of Education officials announced plans to launch the EngageNY data portal in July, despite the recent and highly-publicized objections of parents, educators, school leaders, and some legislators.  This will be the first ever attempt to capture such a wide swath of personal information on every public school child and house it in one location.

The data, expected to be handled with care by the Gates-funded inBloom Inc., is…

My View: Predictions for the next decades of education

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…