TEXT Snowden and the NSAThere are numerous restrictions on the president using the power of the military on American civilians. The Third Amendment, for example, forbids the peacetime quarte… Read More

TEXT The Case For Maths Teaching ReformReformation is needed in our methods of teaching Arithmetic. Pupils should be thoroughly drilled in the fundamental principles, forms of analysis and t… Read More

TEXT Was Richard Feynman a Great Teacher?Was Richard Feynman a great teacher? Probably not at the undergraduate level. Is he a model that K-12 and undergraduate teachers and college professo… Read More

TEXT Too many teachers can't do math, let alone teach itIs your kid struggling with math? Is she flustered by fractions and laid low by long division? Here’s a secret: Her teacher ma… Read More

TEXT The Talent MythFive years ago, several executives at McKinsey & Company, America’s largest and most prestigious management-consulting firm, launched what they called the War f… Read More

TEXT What Do American Schools Teach about Islam? PC or NothingJenny McKeigue's youngest child enters seventh grade this fall, and she plans to excuse him from a world history class requirem… Read More

TEXT For Perspective’s Sake, Here Are 4 Jobs That Pay Better Than TeachingDespite all of the evidence to the contrary, there are still folks out there who think that teachers are fairl… Read More

TEXT Is Your Child Being Taught From a Script?If your child's teacher is using an increasingly common system of instruction known as "scripted teaching," he isn't just following lesson pla… Read More

TEXT Smoke and mirrors? Evaluating the use of reflective practice as a management learning technique.This paper explores the value of reflective practice on a professional management program… Read More

TEXT Failing by design: How we make teaching too hard for mere mortalsIf you caught your pediatrician Googling "upset stomach remedies" before deciding how to treat your child and home-brewi… Read More

TEXT ATPE files T-TESS legal challenge, asserts that new evaluation rules violate state lawThe state’s largest educator association is filing a petition today with the Texas Commission… Read More

TEXT Ukraine's Soros'-Inspired Education Reforms Turning Into a Complete CatastropheUkrainian political scientist Alexander Dudchak was even more blunt, telling the online newspaper that "th… Read More

TEXT What are the challenges faced by today's teachers in educating immigrant children?Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of imm… Read More

TEXT 'It's a political failure': how Sweden's celebrated schools system fell into crisisSweden, once regarded as a byword for high-quality education – free preschool, formal school at… Read More

TEXT Lies Most People Believe About U.S. SchoolsPopular lies about U.S. education certainly don’t do the kids any good. They just let the adults continue to feel comfortable while kids… Read More

TEXT Study: Unruly kids No. 1 reason 133 Temple ISD teachers quitUnruly student behavior at Temple schools is the No. 1 reason why teachers are leaving the district, an administrator told th… Read More

TEXT Elite K-8 school teaches white students they’re born racistAn elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel g… Read More

TEXT Translation is a powerful teaching toolWhen reading literature in translation, many of my students are surprised to learn that the humanities are at a disadvantage compared with the sci… Read More

TEXT New Statutory Requirements Prohibiting the Adoption or Use of Common Core As you consider funding opportunities, especially those offered by the United States Department of Education, I… Read More

TEXT “She Didn’t Teach. We Had to Learn it Ourselves.” Yesterday I got an email from a faculty member who had just received her spring semester student ratings (yes, in Aug… Read More

TEXT Specialist Teachers in Elementary Classrooms? Well, there’s a dilemma tied to these questions. In elementary school in China, the teachers are subject specialists. The math teache… Read More

TEXT What Happens to Finland's Well-Educated Young People? While VET schools have nurses, social workers, and career guidance offices, the general attitude is that if you don’t pass an… Read More

TEXT Study: Ritalin Doesn't Help Academic Performance The more acute a child's ADHD symptoms, the worse they scored for every outcome measured. But despite confirming that Ritalin use increa… Read More

TEXT The Year-Round School Debate There are several arguments made against changing the basic 180 day school year in any shape or form. Some argue that children need the time off to be &ldqu&hell…Read More

TEXT The Indoctrination Myth Does attending college actually make you more liberal and less religious? Research indicates that the answer is: not so much.It’s certainly true that profe… Read More

TEXT The dark side of psychology: Manipulation, mind control, and priming… In the future it could get substantially scarier. There are already technologies that can be used to infer y… Read More

TEXT Here's The Nation's Easiest College Major A college degree is just about essential to make a lot of money in a career, but what if you don't want to work all that hard to get a diploma?… Read More

TEXT Democratic Limits of "Customized" The multi-tiered and modular have certainly long been the American educational way. The new instructional models simply extend older beliefs in natural… Read More

TEXT Critiquing place-based education It’s not surprising that the “critical” aspect of place- and community-based education is not much in evidence; engaging in critique a… Read More

TEXT Obama’s “Community Schools” Aim to Replace Parents Lawmakers and the Obama administration are plotting to unconstitutionally commandeer local schools and turn them int… Read More

TEXT IEPs shouldn’t just be about “Special Ed”Four of my five children have been on an IEP (Individual Education Plan) at one point or another in their lives. Kid #5 is onl… Read More

TEXT Why  Parents & Teaches Should Use Direct Systematic PhonicsNeurobiological science reveals the importance of phonologic processing to proficient reading. We now know proficient… Read More

TEXT Texas falls to 43 in national education rankingTexas fell to the bottom fifth of U.S. states in an annual report on education quality.Texas is now ranked 43rd in the nation, falling fro… Read More

TEXT What is Classical Education?Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind. The early years of school are spent in absorbing facts, systematically laying the f… Read More

TEXT Points of View: On the Implications of Neuroscience Research for Science Teaching and Learning: Are There Any?I am notorious for my skepticism about what neuroscience can currently offe… Read More

TEXT Difference Between Education and IndoctrinationThe difference between education and indoctrination is vast, but it is often subtle when the mind thinks of these two subjects. Education… Read More

TEXT John Dewey Is a FraudDewey was not primarily concerned with teaching new information.  He was concerned with inculcating new attitudes.John Dewey was a social engineer -- one might… Read More

TEXT Classical schools put Plato over iPadThere are more than 55,000 members on the forums at welltrainedmind.com, a site started by Susan Wise Bauer, an author and educator who in 1999 publ… Read More

TEXT RTI -An Excuse to Deny Services to Students with Learning Disabilities?    RTI was introduced to the educational mainstream in 2004, when the Individuals with Disabilitie… Read More

TEXT I feel I have done my children a disservice by unschooling them!I have been unschooling my children for 8 years now. I have a 12 yo and an 8yo. This year, for various reasons, we decid… Read More

TEXT In schools, the no-fail policy may have failed. What now?The no-detention policy was implemented as part of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) under the RTE Act in 2010 t… Read More

TEXT How Sending Your Child to Private School Can Save You $53,000Public school can end up being much more expensive than private school depending on where you choose to live.For most Americ… Read More

TEXT Do uniforms make schools better?After a school uniform policy was implemented in three Nevada middle schools in 2008 and 2009, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, set out t… Read More

TEXT RIP cursive: keyboarding is kingUnder the new Common Core Standards, adopted by 45 states and in various stages of implementation and debate across the nation, third and fourth graders… Read More

TEXT Multiplication Charthttp://www.emathtimes.com/eabaco/taulamultiplicar.png VIDEO Read More

TEXT 6 Failed Predictions About 21st Century SchoolsAll Information Will Be Fed Directly into Students’ Minds Via a Wood Chipper: Envisioned in 1910—before the advent of computer… Read More

TEXT The Master’s as the New Bachelor’sWilliam Klein’s story may sound familiar to his fellow graduates. After earning his bachelor’s in history from the College at B… Read More

TEXT How Can Teachers Help Students With ADHD?When teachers understand the struggle of a student with ADHD, they can better help that student in the classroom. Because children with ADHD do… Read More

TEXT Details on State Corporal Punishment in Public School LawsIn 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ingraham v. Wright, that schools may use corporal punishment despite parental objectio… Read More

TEXT A low-income Brooklyn high school where 100 percent of black male students graduateA low-income Brooklyn high school where 100 percent of black male students graduateBrooklyn College Ac… Read More

TEXT The Case Against Bilingual EducationThe accumulated research of the past thirty years reveals almost no justification for teaching children in their native languages to help them learn… Read More

TEXT Blended Learning Research Yields Limited Results Blended learning is gaining considerable popularity in American classrooms, but the question remains: Is there strong evidence that… Read More

TEXT 7TH HELL: MIDDLE GRADE HAS MOST FLUNKERS The city’s seventh-graders were the worst performers in public elementary and middle schools last year – with 20 percent o… Read More

TEXT Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based TeachingEvidence for the s… Read More

TEXT A Case for Active LearningFor me, the move to an active learning model paralleled a growing interest in technology-enhanced teaching and the increased availability of online resources… Read More

TEXT Mathematics StandardsThe solutions for districts have been discussed and reported on before, but they are worth repeating here:Identify high-quality teachers by improving data about tea… Read More

TEXT Mathematics StandardsFor more than a decade, research studies of mathematics education in high-performing countries have concluded that mathematics education in the United States must b… Read More

TEXT Repeat Kindergarten: Giving Your Child More Time to GrowHow could a child flunk out of kindergarten?The real question of course is: should you do it? Should you hold your child back fro… Read More

TEXT Kindergarten Cancels Its Show to Allow More Time For “College and Career” PrepA New York kindergarten has cancelled its end of the year show, to devote more time to “p… Read More

TEXT An Urban Myth That Should Be TrueDuring a panel discussion with the current mayors of Los Angeles, Houston and New Orleans at the Aspen Ideas Festival Monday, NPR's Michele Norris offer… Read More

TEXT Drill, Baby, DrillThe word “drill” has come to define bad teaching. The piercing violence that “drilling” evokes just seems not to belong in sensitive pedagogy… Read More

TEXT Educational Fads: What Goes Around Comes AroundTeaching is, by its very nature, experimental. We teachers are just as susceptible to snake-oil sales pitches, fads, and cultural pressure… Read More

TEXT The Flip: End of a Love AffairA little over a year ago I wrote a post about the flipped classroom, why I loved it, and how I used it. I have to admit, the flip wasn’t th… Read More

TEXT Teacher Collaboration: When Belief Systems CollideIn his book, Cognitive Coaching, Robert Garmston (with co-author Arthur Costa) identifies six predominant ideologies that influence edu… Read More

TEXT Performance pay will not improve teaching or learningResearch shows that the carrot of higher pay does not lead to better results. In an authoritative study conducted at Vanderbilt Univ… Read More

TEXT Will firing 5-10 percent of teachers make us Finland?In the world of education policy, the following assertion has become ubiquitous: If we just fire the bottom 5-10 percent of teachers… Read More

TEXT State of Texas Assessments of Academic ReadinessThe State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, commonly referred to as its acronym STAAR (star), are a series of state-mandated st… Read More

TEXT Can poor test scores get a teacher fired?In Houston, a controversial education reform measure allows teachers to be fired based on their students' test scores. Some parents back the pol… Read More

TEXT Study Finds That Students Benefit From Depth, Rather Than BreadthA recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but study them in greater depth, have a… Read More

TEXT To Group or Not to Group — That Is the QuestionWhen the comparison is of the effectiveness of small group versus whole class reading lessons, the choice is clear: small group tea… Read More

TEXT Teachers don’t plan their lessons, and other teachers shouldn’t eitherAt Success, teachers do not spend time crafting the plans and materials for every class—a core e… Read More

TEXT Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go UndiscoveredPublic schools are increasingly filled with black and Hispanic students, but the children identified as “gifted”… Read More

TEXT American Accent TrainingIf you speak English as a second language and want to improve your American English pronunciation and speaking skills, you may be looking for an American accent… Read More

TEXT The Dark Side of Emotional IntelligenceThe problem is that EQ is "morally neutral". It can be used to help, protect, and promote oneself and others, or it can be used to promote oneself… Read More

TEXT The Dark Side of Emotional IntelligenceThe problem is that EQ is "morally neutral". It can be used to help, protect, and promote oneself and others, or it can be used to promote oneself… Read More

TEXT Don't Believe the Hype Around 'Emotional Intelligence'On the surface, emotional intelligence – the ability to perceive, identify and manage emotions – sounds like a wonderf… Read More

TEXT When should my child start school?Kathy Walker, Melbourne education consultant and early childhood expert at the Early Life Foundations, has spent much time on this subject. She&rsquo&hell…Read More

TEXT Data-Driven EducationWith the right tools and support, teachers have the power to meet students where they are and help children succeed in their futures. When data is actionable… Read More

TEXT Public Education’s Silver BulletIn a labor-intensive industry, customizing education meant having one teacher for every child. That’s impossible, so instead you have 30 chil… Read More

TEXT Teacher Retention and the Economy: An Example from ColoradoHow high is teacher attrition? How much does it change over time, and why? We don’t have great answers to these questio… Read More

TEXT Learning OptimismOver ten years ago I came across a book that caught my eye.  At the time I did not recognized the author by name and I was not familiar with his work.  The ti… Read More

TEXT The Reading Brain in the Digital AgeSince at least the 1980s researchers in many different fields—including psychology, computer engineering, and library and information science&m&hell…Read More

TEXT Let's Stop Blaming Bad Teachers, And Start Blaming Bad ParentsThe Los Angeles Dodgers selected Highland Park High School pitcher Clayton Kershaw with the 7th pick in the 2006 Major Leag… Read More

TEXT Are test scores the right measuring tool for teachers?The Obama administration wants schools to do a better job identifying which teachers are effective in the classroom and which ones… Read More

TEXT Immigration Issues Pose Growing Difficulty For American SchoolsPressure is mounting across the country against illegal immigrants in American schools.In some areas, schools are respondi… Read More

TEXT Why education reporting is REALLY so boringWe must have an ivy-leaguer who arrogantly announces he or she has the answers to solve all of education’s problems.  In a few yea… Read More

TEXT Common Core: Frequently Asked QuestionsEducational standards are the learning goals for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. Education standards, like Comm… Read More

TEXT 7 Myths About the BrainWhile experts do recognize that there is lateralization of brain function (that is, certain types of tasks and thinking tend to be more associated with a particul… Read More

TEXT The myth of learning stylesThere is no scientific evidence that children do indeed acquire information more effectively if it is presented to them in their preferred learning style… Read More

TEXT ROTTEN APPLES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF TEACHER CHEATINGWe develop an algorithm for detecting teacher cheating that combines information on unexpected test s… Read More

TEXT The Value of Standardized TestingWe must not fear that which can offer us the best possible opportunity to transfer information in the most effective way. One important measure for that… Read More

TEXT Pearson Responds To Research By UT Austin Professor Walter Stroup That Suggests Flaw In Texas Standardized Tests.Analyses conducted by Stroup and two other UT Austin researchers call in… Read More

TEXT School lunch fruits and veggies often tossed in trash, study finds.New federal guidelines requiring healthier school lunches have made headlines in recent years, but that doesn't mean k… Read More

TEXT The Bare Walls Theory.A recent study has found that for young children, adopting a more subdued approach, like Baker’s, is better. The study, published May 2014 in Psychological S… Read More

TEXT RewardsIn a perfect world, all students would be intrinsically motivated to learn. The acquisition of knowledge would be reason enough for children to go to school, and the achievement… Read More

TEXT Stand and Deliver RevisitedAfter Stand and Deliver was released, Escalante became an overnight celebrity. Teachers and other interested observers asked to sit in on his classes, and he… Read More

TEXT School Should Start Later So Teens Can Sleep, Urge Doctors.In a statement published in the journal Pediatrics, the Academy’s Adolescent Sleep Working Group reviewed the studies t… Read More

TEXT All students should graduate from high school fully prepared for college.From an academic perspective, college and career readiness means that a high school graduate has the… Read More

TEXT What We Saw in the ClassroomOne of the more interesting findings from the study was that in 23 percent of the cases, teachers had better results without the interactive whiteboards… Read More

TEXT The Faulty Logic of the ‘Math Wars’This mechanical image of calculation is the target of a number of philosophical critiques. Arguably the most famous of these is in… Read More