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Why School Is So Boring

John Thompson | Posted 12.16.2012 | Home
Read More: John Eastman, PBS Frontline, Sarah Sparks, Judy Willis, Terry Grier, School Reform, Houston ISD, Education Week, Home News
John Thompson

A first rule of education should be, "Listen to the students and they will teach you how to teach them." It can be a frightening policy. Few things are more painful to teachers than the words, "I'm bored!"

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Frontline's 'Dropout Nation' Shows What It Really Takes to Turn Around Schools

John Thompson | Posted 12.03.2012 | Home
Read More: Terry Grier, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Pbs Documentary, School Turnarounds, Dropout Nation, Houston ISD, Roland Fryer, Frontline, Pbs, Education Reform, Apollo 20, Dropout Epidemic, High School Dropouts, Dropout Rates, Home News
John Thompson

PBS showed a reality that is lost on data-driven "reformers." Social scientists have documented the primary importance of socio-emotional factors and the need to build trust before academics can improve. And that takes patience.

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Get Ready for 'Moms Against Drunk Testing'

Jason Stanford | Posted 11.24.2012 | Home
Read More: Texas Association of Business, Terry Greir, Texans Advocating for Meaningful School Assessment, Pearson Education, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Sandy Kress, Corpus Christi ISD, High-Stakes Testing, Robert Scott, Houston ISD, Pearson, Home News
Jason Stanford

The education reformers who brought us No Child Left Behind have done screwed up. They've messed with Texas mommas.

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On NYC Subways, It's Kids' Breakfasts Vs. Rats

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 04.16.2012 | New York
Read More: Food Research and Action Center, Breakfast, Rats, Mta, Houston ISD, Subways, Joseph J. Lhota, New York News
Bettina Elias Siegel

When Joseph Lhota served as Rudolph Giuliani's deputy mayor he was so active in combatting the city's rodent problem that Giuliani christened him the "rat czar." So why is he now opposed to an eating ban on the subway?

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Texas Turmoil: Thousands Of Educators Protest Budget Cuts At Capitol

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Hesp, Aft, Budget Cuts, Teacher Protests, Houston ISD, Texas Schools, Houston Schools, Austin Protests, Texas Budget, Home News

As spring break kicks off, thousands of educators from around the state are hardly vacationing. Instead, they're protesting budget cuts at the state c...

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