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Do American Schools Need More Classroom Closers?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Education, Sam Chaltain, Teacher Evaluation, Race to the Top, Obama Administration, Education Reform, Teachers, Learning, Boston Red Sox, Education News

What is the statistical equivalent of a "save" in teaching -- and if we measured it, would it help us better assess a teacher's ability to support the learning and growth of children?

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Is Daytime Sleepiness The Root Of Learning And Behavior Problems In Children?

David Volpi, M.D., P.C., F.A.C.S. | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Daytime Sleepiness, Dr. David Volpi, Sleep Problems, Sleep Apnea, Sleepiness, National Sleep Foundation, Learning, Sleep, Children Sleep, New Research, Healthy Living Health News, Children Sleep Apnea, Add Adhd, Sleep in Children, Adhd, Children ADHD, Healthy Living News

A recent study suggests that many cases of ADHD in children may have been misdiagnosed, and that behavior such as moodiness and hyperactivity might in fact be due to obstructive sleep apnea or other sleep disorder.

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Why You Can't Really Learn Art From a How-To Book

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Art, Art Education, Learning, Teachers, Teaching, Instruction Manual, Education News

So what are teachers for? The delivery-of-content model of instruction doesn't describe all of what teaching is about. Most of what you really must know and be able to do isn't delivered to you. You don't need someone up there who knows all the answers to tell you what to do.

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Homework: Help or Hassle?

Tara Subramaniam | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Homework, High-School-Coursework, A-Race-to-Nowhere, Education Reform, Learning, Teen News

I don't think that homework should necessarily be totally abolished. The core idea of homework is that it's used to polish concepts and reinforce lessons outside of the classroom.

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Five Best Ways To Revise For Exams, By An Oxbridge Applications Consultant

Sarah Slater | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: UK Teachers, Revision, UK Students, UK Schools, Learning, Study, Advice, Exams, UK Universities & Education News

Students all over the world are facing the music with school exams in full swing at the moment - not to mention finals for those already at university. And with students being tested on more information across a wide range of subjects, remembering what you've been taught is vital.

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Kid Whisperers

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Horses, Education, Parenting, Empathy, Learning, Sam Chaltain, Buck, Training Kids, Horse Training, Video, Parents News

Buck reminds us that when learning is understood as the effort to empathize with another, it transforms both teacher and student.

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The Trouble With Universities

John M. Eger | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: College Admissions Process, Knowledge, Education Reform, Learning, Universities, Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College News

There is agreement we have a problem with K-12 education, but there is not a widespread recognition that it starts at the top... at the university level.

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Raising Tomorrow's Leaders Today: Are You a Natural Leader?

Lisa Arie | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Leadership, Education, Curiosity, Learning, Business News

What stimulates your curiosity? When was the last time you created a place and a space to imagine? If you want a litmus test for how imaginative and innovative you truly are, spend several hours with children and see if you can hold their interest.

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It's Time for Technology to Disrupt Education

Larry Magid | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Grockit, Educational Technology, Education, Learning, Edtech, LearningJar, Socrative, Innovators, Disruptive Innovation, Edx, Taptolearn, Innovation, Khan Academy, Technology News

Thanks to technology, the world can be our teacher and the Internet our classroom. What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.

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Why Our Children Should Be Taught to Meditate in School

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Cell Phones, Public Schools, Concentration, Meditation, Mindfulness, Learning, Classroom, Education News

"Pay attention!" we tell the young. Yet we fail to give them the tools that they need in our increasingly distraction-filled world to calm and center their minds and get down to the business of learning.

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Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Education, Sam Chaltain, No Child Left Behind, Blue Man Group, Elementary School, Education Reform, Accountability, Learning, Video, Education News

What makes the Blue School's framework exciting is its commitment to explicitly link everything it does to the latest research about how the brain works, and about how people learn.

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Comics Instead of Textbooks?

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Book News, Transmedia, Education, Scholastic, Children, Children's Books, Comics, Books, Teachers, Education Reform, Learning, Graphic Novels, Video, Books News

Learning is one of the most empowering things a person can do with their life and can be quite fun, yet the mediums used in classrooms are dated and have caused students to think that learning is drudgery.

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Being Smarter About IQ

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Memory, Concentration, Iq, Psychology, Brain, Learning, Frontal Lobes, Problem Solving, Fluid Intelligence, Executive Functions, College News

Are we still debating whether IQ is fixed or whether it is malleable and can be pushed around? Are we still fighting the nature versus nurture battle? We thought this had been resolved ages ago. In fact, 30 years ago.

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What Have You Learned So Far?

Rabbi Josh Feigelson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: University, Higher Education, College, Learning, Kindergarten, Education News

The stakes of learning are not simply about mastering information for the sake of economic competition; they're far deeper and richer. Learning is one of the behaviors that makes us human. It is at our essence.

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Million Hoodie March, Victor Hugo Edition: Les Miserábles in the South Bronx

Kate Quarfordt | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: School, Bronx, Les Miserables, Teaching, Learning, Arts Education, South Bronx, New York News, Education News

In all my years making theater in the Bronx, I've never seen kids give this much of a damn about a show before. Ironically enough, I think it's because we've never done a show that connects so directly to their lives.

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Life Lessons From Trale Lewous

Peri Pakroo | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Creativity, Putting Yourself Out There, Learning, Embarrassment, Candy, Trale Lewous Nathan J. Barnatt, Skittles, Youtube Videos, Trale Lewous Skittles Commercial, Video, Culture News

Nathan Barnatt is an amazing comedian and has made a huge name for himself by putting out YouTube videos playing different characters. My fave character is Trale Lewous, "self-proclaimed spokeperson for candy."

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New Learning Ratings From Common Sense Media

Daniel Donahoo | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Education, Ratings, Commonsense Media, Children, Students, Learning, Home News

The rise of game-based learning has come a long way from the 1985 version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Today, in the world of education and learning, computer gaming is all the rage.

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Welcome to the Education Renaissance

Lisa Petrides | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Renaissance, Open Education Resources, Innovation, Education, Disruptive Innovation, Learning, Education News

While some are quick to dismiss the disruptive changes in education today, I think we should welcome the highly collaborative, personalized, and affordable opportunities new digital technologies offer learners throughout the world.

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Why David Brooks Almost Gets School Reform Right

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Sam Chaltain, Brooklyn, Learning, David Brooks, Education News

Once again, David Brooks has written an important column about education. And once again, he offers a vision of modern schooling that is almost perfect -- but not quite.

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Vive La France? Revolutions in Parenting

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Bringing Up Bebe, Pamela Druckerman, Good Parenting, Parenting Tips, Children, France, Sam Chaltain, Raising Children, Parenting, Harvard Business School, Chris Argyris, Parenting Advice, Learning, Parents News

Our well-intended quest for ever-higher achievement has bred a nation of helicopter parents and a generation of children with plenty of love and precious few limits.

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Learning Through Water Play

Dr. Rebecca Palacios | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Early Education, Play, Children, Learning, Preschool, Kindergarten, Parents, Parents News

Water fascinates young children. A small bin full of water placed on a table affords hours of learning.

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What Makes Us Tick

Randi Miller | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Understanding Self-Destructive Behaviors, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Learning, Acoa, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholic Parents, Alcoholism, Mental Health, Children of Alcoholics, Healthy Living News

We hear a lot about dysfunction and how experiences from our childhoods can influence our lives well into adulthood. I think this is true on both the positive and negative sides.

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WATCH: This Is Your Brain On Music

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Spearman's G, Video, Neuroscience, Guitar Zero, Talk Nerdy to Me, Guitar Hero, Science, Gary Marcus, Psychology, Cara Santa Maria, Guitar, Musical Ability, Music, Learning, Critical Period, Science News

Do you want to learn how to play an instrument but think that you "can't teach an old dog new tricks?" Then you'd be interested in what Gary Marcus has to say.

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Drowning in a Rising Tide of...

John Merrow | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Pbs, Education, Charter Schools, Ronald Reagan, John Merrow, Education Reform, Pbs Newshour, A Nation at Risk, Public Education, Charters, Learning, Education News

The real problem is not the Constitution's limits on the federal role in education. For all its talk of public education as 'the civil rights issue of our time," this Administration, like the one before it, simply does not have a powerful vision of what genuine education might be.

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Edmodo Links Developers With Educators

Daniel Donahoo | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Edmodo, Education, Learning, Edtech, Technology News

On Tuesday, at SXSWedu, Edmodo announced that it is opening its API to third party developers to allow them to develop educational apps across their Edmodo platform. But this was not the most interesting or powerful part of the announcement.

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