Schools

Healthier, Wealthier and Wiser: The Case for Creating Green Schools Now

Matt Petersen | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green


Matt Petersen

As the Congress deliberates the largest stimulus package in history, there is no single better investment that we can make than to help maximize the potential learning and productivity of our children.

Celine Cousteau: Environmentalism Should Be Taught In Schools

Indagare | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green


It must be eco-school day. This morning, we wrote about a contest for America's Greenest School and 5 Green Tips For Students, and now we come across ...

Greenest School Contest And 5 Tips For Students

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green


Celebrating the people who watch out for their kids, for other peoples' kids AND for the environment, there is now a contest for "America's Greenest S...

Peaceful Revolution: Afterschool For All

Jodi Grant | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living


Jodi Grant

The economic downturn is creating even greater demand for afterschool programs, as families struggle to keep their jobs, take on more hours, or afford basic necessities for their children.

Stimulating

John Graham | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


John Graham

Congress should follow the President's lead in creating a stimulus package that is a combination of short-term measures and longer-term infrastructure investments.

Standardized Testing Alternative

Robert Rose | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics


Robert Rose

No student, class, teacher, school, or district should be evaluated on the basis on any one test, especially one with the unreliability of so-called Standardized Tests.

At-Home Mothers & the National Service Track

Barri Gordon Waltcher | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living


Barri Gordon Waltcher

The type of volunteering that SAHM's tend to do -- tasks associated with PTAs, sports teams, etc -- is largely viewed as unskilled, with questionable economic value.

See, You Can Wear Your Fairy Wings to School!

Isobel White | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living


Isobel White

Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up, is about how strict gender stereotypes and pressures deny students the opportunity to be joyfully who they are.

Science is Back in the House

Bill Allen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


Bill Allen

A worldwide study of education in science and math contains a mixed report card for the U.S. The good news: We did manage to beat Yemen soundly.

Texas Wrestles With Teaching "Strengths And Weaknesses" Of Scientific Theory

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green


AUSTIN, Texas — Experts and activists concerned about the way evolution is taught in Texas' public schools made their case before the state's bo...

Harlem Village Academies 7th Graders Blog the Inauguration

Deborah Kenny | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Deborah Kenny

2009-01-21-IMG_7316croppedfp.jpg"I'm thinking right now that if America can change, so can I. I can change my behavior, my attitude. I can make so many improvements. Like Barack, I am going to be somebody. I, too, will help America."

High School Dismisses Class to Watch Inauguration

Natasha Chen | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics


Natasha Chen

At San Mateo High School, even teachers who had intended on continuing with their lesson plans during the inauguration gave in to their pleading students who wanted to watch this historic moment.

Reflections on Reconciliation: Paradox of Excess & Deprivation

Terry Leach | Posted 02.20.2009 | Business


Terry Leach

I wonder if Captain "Sully" Sullenberger's colleagues' pensions are secure. Somehow, I doubt it. Although airlines were the companies we used to loved to hate, airline employees are part of the family, too.

Change and the Dream: Teaching Our Children About Non-Violent Living

Terry Real | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living


Terry Real

It is in everyone's interest -- the victim, the bully and the bystander -- to create a safe environment in which respect for one another is not just a voluntary matter but a baseline norm that we insist upon.

Cuts Hurt: The Long-Term Ill Effects of Shortsighted Education Cuts

Randi Weingarten | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics


Randi Weingarten

When the economy catches a cold, our schools get pneumonia. Today, pneumonia is spreading from state to state, and our students are suffering the symptoms.

With Zimbabwe in Crisis, Children Are Locked Out of Schools

GroundReport | Posted 02.06.2009 | World


GroundReport

Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism site covering world news at the local level. As conditions continue to deteriorate ...

Eight Things Parents Can Do -- Immediately, Easily!

Robert Rose | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living


Robert Rose

Some intellectuals tend to think they can detach themselves from their emotions and think purely and more clearly. Dangerous.

Obama and Education Reform

Bill Ayers | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics


Bill Ayers

Obama is not a monarch -- Arne Duncan is not education czar -- and we are not his subjects. Educators, students, and citizens must press now for an education worthy of a democracy.

A Marshall Plan for Education to Restore America's Prestige in the World

Stephen Shames | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics


Stephen Shames

The financial crisis has taught us that in today's global economy, America's fortunes are inseparable from Main Streets of other countries. Today's flat world will rise or fall as one.

An Obama Village Fantasy

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green


Stephen C. Rose

Just an initial effort to think about human settlements as they might develop during coming years. An Obama Village would have a population of plus o...

Looking Deeper Into Obama Education Pick's Accomplishments

Alexander Russo | Posted 01.16.2009 | Chicago


Alexander Russo

Like Bush's Education Secretary pick Rod Paige, Arne Duncan comes from a big city with a success story that the national press failed to figure out was mostly a mirage.

Is Spanking Children to Discipline Them, American?

Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living


Sean Jacobs

How do you raise 'American kids' when you were raised to be an African parent?

Empowering Middle & High School Students

Robert Rose | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living


Robert Rose

It is important to motivate teachers whose classes are challenged to think about what it is that they do that turn kids off. The kids can't be held totally accountable.

Prop. 8 and our schools -- time to tell it like it is.

Isobel White | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home


Isobel White

One of the most cynical - and successful - claims made during the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign was that unless the proposition passed, our schoolchil...

Obama's Education Secretary Must Be a Real Reformer

Marc Lampkin | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics


Marc Lampkin

Now is the time for Obama to turn rhetoric into action by nominating for Education Secretary someone committed to carrying out real reform that extends down to every classroom in America.