Third Graders Help Their School Win Green Cup Recycle Challenge
Winning the Recycle Challenge was a source of pride for the children, which showed them that the work they do every week pays off.
Winning the Recycle Challenge was a source of pride for the children, which showed them that the work they do every week pays off.
The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.09.2012
Move over college students -- you're not the only ones seeking financial aid to pay for tuition. More parents are applying for loans and other hel...
Linda Rosen | Posted 05.03.2012
We must give America's youth a solid foundation in STEM and insight into their rich postsecondary and career options. The demand for STEM skills extends well beyond STEM-specific jobs.
Nicholas Donohue | Posted 04.30.2012
Much has changed in the last 100 years, but not the way we look at K-12 education. Our system is outdated and the "one-size-fits-all" approach is no longer working and in need of remodeling.
John M. Eger | Posted 04.04.2012
Cities everywhere should be looking to the San Diego race to see what the city does about education ... whoever is elected.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2012
We are no longer an agrarian society, therefore, the school day and school year must be longer. The responsibility for public education which was ceded to the states must be centralized with regard to uniformity of curriculum. In the future, we need a national core curriculum.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.15.2012
How do you train an innovator? Which schools are doing it better than others? Are teachers equipped with the new skills required to educate students in this decade? Are curricula incorporating the essential content that will help young people become more innovative?
Gary Orfield | Posted 05.14.2012
It has never been more important to monitor the use of exclusionary practices in schools. Our nation's schools expel over 100,000 students and suspend over 3,000,000 students at least once during each school year.
Rebecca Joseph | Posted 05.09.2012
I was a potential lemon, but I had the will and desire to change and others had the same commitment to help me. Yet there are many teachers who lack that will and who never improve year after year.
Veronique Pittman | Posted 04.29.2012
Given that there are 132,600 schools in the U.S. alone, the GCC demonstrates that the potential benefits of a national school-based resource conservation movement are enormous.
Martin J. Blank | Posted 04.17.2012
By making schools the hubs of their communities and engaging a range of partners with expertise and resources that schools do not have, community schools support students' needs and boost their learning.
Veronique Pittman | Posted 04.09.2012
Preventable energy waste costs Americans hundreds of billions of dollars a year and studies have shown that most Americans continue to live in denial about their energy consumption. But students are turning that around.
Michael Rebell | Posted 04.02.2012
Childhood poverty has a profound impact on learning. Achievement gaps for disadvantaged children begin before they start school and widen throughout their school careers. But research shows that change is possible.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.31.2012
On January 1, 2012, educators nationwide lost an educational icon. Dr. Martin Haberman, long time researcher, educator, writer, and mentor to teachers, passed away in Milwaukee. And Dr. Haberman never wavered from his goal.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.12.2012
It isn't my imagination. My children's backpacks got heavier with the weight of those textbooks over the past few years. And I don't think the weight of student backpacks are just my concern. I heard a rumor that even tiger moms are advocating for lighter school backpacks.
Idit Harel Caperton | Posted 02.15.2012
Yesterday was a busy day. Google announced at 3am EST their "GoogleGiveBack" program, listing grants they've made to support education, technology innovation, and the fight against modern-day slavery.
Sam Chaltain | Posted 02.07.2012
A debate is raging over which set of economic proposals to pursue in order to rebuild the national economy. At the same time, K-12 education reformers are engaged in their own frantic search for the right recipe(s) that can unlock the full power of teaching and learning.
Sam Chaltain | Posted 01.31.2012
Out of all the schools in the world, which ones are the most transformational when it comes to imagining a new way to think about teaching and learning in the 21st century?
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Posted 01.30.2012
This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. The idea that hormonally-cha...
Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 01.09.2012
No child in this country can be denied a public education. This is settled law, but not for Alabama legislators, who passed an anti-immigrant law with a provision requiring elementary and secondary schools to determine students' and parents' citizenship status.
Posted 11.27.2011
Colorado Democratic Senate President Brandon Shaffer is seeking an emergency audit of online K-12 schools. In a letter to lawmakers Monday, Shaffer...
Nancy Cantor | Posted 11.20.2011
At the very moment when voices are being raised all across our country to ensure our national competitiveness by educating the broadest, most diverse population we've ever had, U.S. News rewards institutions for the number of students whom they can reject.
Glenn C. Altschuler | Posted 10.09.2011
The time is now, right now, to find -- or found -- good schools that will serve the next generation of Americans as engines of opportunity in an intensely competitive information age.
Curtis Arnold | Posted 10.02.2011
With nearly 20 million American students heading for college and another 55 million kids in K-12 schools, parents often have to scramble for the extra...
Posted 10.02.2011
A new study conducted by the National Center for Education Information has uncovered both startling similarities and arresting differences between tea...
Veronique Pittman | Posted 05.16.2012