I like to say good morning to our students. No, actually I love saying good morning to our students. When I say this I mean to several hundred students as they arrive, and not a few as I may see them passing in the hall. It’s a simple act that has a powerful set of returns. In fact, today I took this simple act a step further and held the door open to those high school students who are dropped off, or who drive to school. They slowly trickled in at one of the entrances to our secondary…
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Just how many ineffective teachers are out there?
by Professor Aaron Pallas
How many New York City public schoolteachers are so incompetent that they should be fired? That’s the 250-million-dollar question that must be addressed by both sides wrangling over what kind of teacher-evaluation system the city is going to build.

New York…
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FEBRUARY 27, 2013, 5:00 AMHow Should Children Be Taught About Puberty and Sex?
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As an elementary classroom teacher (mostly 5th Grade), I was always worried about being out sick or attending a conference for a bunch of reasons - I wasn't sure if the sub would cover all the work, if the children would make good choices (i.e.- would they behave) and honestly, I always missed my kids. The feeling was usually mutual (depending on the class or time of year) and upon my return my kids would ask me to never be absent again because it wasn't…
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February 28, 2013
Writer and illustrator, Kathy Temean posted this about my article in the March 2013 issue of Parenting magazine School Years… Continue
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Teaching Values: Let's End Our Misguided Approach
By Katherine Casey and Francesca Kaplan Grossman
"Schools and teachers don't get to choose whether they teach values. Schools and teachers are always affecting values by, for…
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Kickboard, a web-based school analytics platform that allows educators and school leaders to capture, analyze and securely share critical student performance data, announced today that it has received $2 million in Series A funding led by New Markets Venture Partners and Two Sigma Ventures, with participation from several angel investors. The new round adds to $800,000 from previous seed and angel rounds, bringing the total amount…
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Added by Rebecca H. on February 27, 2013 at 5:00pm —
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Thirty Years Later: A Nation Still at Risk?
This April marks the 30th anniversary of the controversial Reagan-era report “A Nation at Risk”—and little has changed since.
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Added by Michael Keany on February 27, 2013 at 3:34pm —
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Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards by Diane Ravitch
I have thought long and hard about the Common Core standards.
I have decided that I cannot support them.
In this post, I will explain why.
I have long…
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February 27, 2013
Thank you to everyone who answered my email query about allowing your own child to quit an activity. I received many replies, interviewed great parents, and the published article appears in the March 2013 issue of Parenting- School Years Edition, on newsstands now! If you're rushing out the door to…
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Added by Christine Brower-Cohen on February 27, 2013 at 10:59am —
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ADHD Medication Can Help Kids, But It Can't Fix Schools
By Nancy Rappaport
Ed Week
I think we can all agree that reforming schools through medicating students would be misguided, even ridiculous.
Yet The New York Times reported…
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Added by Michael Keany on February 26, 2013 at 5:47pm —
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Poverty's Prominent Role in Absenteeism
By Marc Cutillo
Half of life is just showing up." I once loved repeating that to my students who were regularly absent from school. Like all good quotes, it owns a perfect blend of simplicity, adaptation,…
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February 25, 2013
Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station is home to an exhibit honoring the 100th anniversary of the Grand Central Terminal. Hurry to see the exhibit before it closes on March 15th, but take… Continue
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- February 15, 2013, 8:17 p.m. ET
A Genetic Code for Genius?
In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart…
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