10 Things We Should Teach Every Kid About Food
We must find creative ways to reintroduce food in its broadest sense to children's everyday activities, starting with school, in order to close the knowledge gap between farm and plate.
We must find creative ways to reintroduce food in its broadest sense to children's everyday activities, starting with school, in order to close the knowledge gap between farm and plate.
Dr. Barbara Kurshan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Technology
As Curriki now explores creative ways to sustain itself and find the right product/market fit, we again need the input of the education community.
US News & World Report | Michelle Obama | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
We all remember the impact a special teacher had on us--a teacher who refused to let us fall through the cracks; who pushed us and believed in us when...
Dylan Kendall | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
No Child Left Behind, which bases educational success on reading and math testing, leaves little time for arts education, first in California and now in the nation at large.
Thomas W. Carroll | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
Under Bloomberg and mayoral control (vs. how it was run under Bill Thompson under the old board of education), the public school system is viewed as a "portfolio" rather than as a centrally run monolith.
nydailynews.com | Kenneth Lovett | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
Get ready for more pain. Gov. Paterson will propose $2.5 billion in budget cuts today - primarily in health and education - to close a mushrooming def...
Ming Holden | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Midland just won California's highest environmental honor, and out of 2009's fifteen recipients it was the only school to have done so.
Joel Epstein | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
I first visited Lindsay, California about four years ago when, as my company's director of charitable giving, I was looking to make an educational investment in a local elementary school.
David Jones | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
Blame has been placed on the young people, their parents, curriculum, teacher quality, but all of this is basically cover for the fact that we haven't set up an educational system that provides equity.
AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York
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Jenifer Fox | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
It's parent-teacher conference time and you arranged your schedule three weeks in advance to attend. If you are like most parents, you feel a certain ...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
Isn't Zachary the sort of child that Delaware's Zero tolerance policy was put in place to protect? And aren't his parents just the kind we want to support and respect?
Gordon Campbell | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
What would be the impact if we succeeded in lowering the dropout rate? How much better off will we all be if we succeed in our dropout prevention efforts?
Mia Kirshner | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
I Live Here has found its voice through what I have learned in Malawi. We found our voice through mistakes, which I am sure we will continue to make and hopefully learn from.
Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.
Landon Ross | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Other countries are on a future trajectory to out-compete us in science and technology. It's hugely unpatriotic to do nothing in the face of moneyed interests pushing superstition into the classroom.
Jim Fruchterman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
People with print disabilities should have affordable, accessible technology that allows them to easily read. Everyone should have equal access to the world of ideas.
Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
KAUST is the first university in Saudi Arabia to allow a mixed-gender environment. This has triggered a 'showdown' between the press and a senior member of the clergy.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Our failure to educate all our children to the highest levels means students in America overall are being left behind in a world where global competition is increasingly tough.
Halle Tecco | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
If we don't embrace creative and progressive thought in improving our school systems, we're going to fail all of our children.
John Affeldt | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
When the state that educates 1 in 8 American children is failing miserably at that task, America should care. When that state is also the 8th largest...
Brendon Ayanbadejo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
I was actually having a decent game against the Patriots last Sunday. I had no mental errors or missed assignments; the game was in the balance. Then poof! In the blink of an eye, my dream season was over.
Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact
The Fourth Annual National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week was held October 4-10, sponsored by the PACER Center, to encourage communities nationwid...
Steven Weber | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
And therefore, I will be supporting the same policies which led directly to the current fiscal crisis and everything else related to Ronald Reagan's universally discredited theory of trickle-down economics.
Daniel Frank | Posted 10.09.2009 | Chicago
Colonel Francis Wayland Parker knew what President Obama knows: That advocating for public education is a patriotic and political act.
Rob Smart | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green