By Kristin Caddick, junior at Gaston Day School in Gastonia, North Carolina If you take 450 students at an environmental conference from around the g...
The relationship between New York City, New York State, and Pearson Education must end. Other states and municipalities should reconsider their relationship with Pearson as well. This company and its testing regime have not earned the right to work in American schools.
On state report cards, we get an A for being bike friendly and an A+ for hazelnut production. But Education Week gives us a C on its report card and ranks us 43rd in the nation for education based on numerous factors including how we treat teachers.
As Benjamin Franklin so famously noted - and to which many will certainly agree -- time is money. On the flipside, many will readily declare that money is time. But what happens when you're a student going after a degree, and you can't afford much in the way of time and/or money?
Until learning is fully integrated in the lives of low-performing students, the Common Core may only exacerbate the achievement gap, accelerating students who are prepared to succeed and leaving others behind. At best, it will be successful for students at all economic levels.
Instead of pitting public schools against charters and vouchers, we've all got to take an unvarnished look at the gorilla in the room: poverty.
We asked 16 innovative and thought-leading university and college CIOs, located worldwide about their spending priorities for 2013. Specifically, where are they putting their money this year? The CIOs also gave us a quick sentence about their top priority.
I just read a very interesting book called Improbable Scholars, by David Kirp of the University of California at Berkeley. In it, Kirp tells stories o...
If the United States is going to produce the kind of qualified professionals that the job market demands, industry leaders must continue to donate their time to cultivating STEM passions in local student bodies.
A giant portrait of Frederick Douglass stared down at the audience of about three hundred high school students who gathered in the Hofstra University student center to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Count von Count typically focuses on whole numbers, but these days 0.29 is on his mind. Why? Point-two-nine is the measure of something of great significance to the Count. Worthy, even, of one of his famous lightning bolts. It's the size of the Sesame Street Difference.
The GOP ought to remember that Latinos don't just vote for immigration reform alone. They vote for the party that will best represent their interests.
Let me be loud and clear: every teacher in this country should be paid a six-figure salary. We have the money to make this happen and I believe most teachers deserve it.
Students in Massachusetts were on spring break last week, so when they resume their routine tomorrow, we need to assess the impact of the tragedy and create a plan that restores a sense of security.
As politicians and educators look for ways to improve attendance, graduation rates and test scores, I would challenge them to support the arts, provide funding and treat the artists and their teachers with the respect they deserve.
Every Earth Day, some of us are tempted to say things like "We live on the same planet; we're all in this together." But no, we're not.
In schools, as at Enron, the way we select and assess top leaders and accord them recognition needs examination as well. When leaders' desire for celebrity trumps the importance of character, look for trouble.
An arbitrary number is not going to support student achievement and teacher practice; focus on a best practice is. Instead of focusing on quantity of assessments, let's focus on quality of assessment practices.
By Ben Austin and Izzy Gray, Freshmen at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass. Reforesting mangrove trees is hard work. It's dirty, t...
This report is irrelevant because the only way it determined someone's level of intelligence was looking at the college they attended.
Standardized testing should not have the overwhelming influence on education that it does. A good teacher knows when her/his students are doing well. Good teachers can create a curriculum and assessments that meet the needs of their students.
The life of Aaron Willis was forever changed on the night of December 19, 2012. The ninth grader at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami, Florida was shot while riding his bike in the Wynwood section of the city when shots rang out.
I teach my own kids lots of things. I teach them how to empty the dishwasher and that smelling like trash isn't a good way to make friends, and gossiping isn't a good way to keep them. I teach them every moment I am with them, only it's not math. It's just life stuff. Life stuff is good.
It makes me sad to see the education of the heart -- the real core of any worthwhile English curriculum -- gutted for the sake of global competition, and to see teachers once again take the hit for "dummied down" education.
As the pace of education "reform" heats up, what it means to be a teacher is being defined by everyone except teachers. In the wake of this, we need to remind ourselves of these two undeniable words: Teachers matter.
