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The Obama Plan -- Spending Mental Health Money in All the Wrong Places

Allen Frances | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Allen Frances

This well-meaning program is a serious mistake for two reasons. First, it is no more than a politically correct, cosmetic solution that distracts attention from what really needs to be done. Second, it will likely wind up doing much more harm than good.

NFTE Teacher Training -- The Key to the Replication of Entrepreneurial Education, Part 5: The Eleven Tips for Teacher Training

Steve Mariotti | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Steve Mariotti

After 20 years these are the 11 things that we have learned about running an effective teacher training in youth entrepreneurship.

NFTE Teacher Training -- The Key to the Replication of Entrepreneurial Education, Part 4: The Teachers

Steve Mariotti | Posted 04.28.2013 | Business
Steve Mariotti

As I sat and listened, I realized that entrepreneurship is a way for people to tell their own stories, a reflection of themselves and what they are and have learned.

NFTE Teacher Training -- The Key to the Replication of Entrepreneurial Education, Part 3: The Wall Chart

Steve Mariotti | Posted 04.27.2013 | Business
Steve Mariotti

In that historic retreat on entrepreneurial education, we finalized the NFTE Wall Chart -- see below -- a guide for what each teacher should try and get students to do to graduate from NFTE. The effects were felt.

NFTE's Teacher Training -- The Key to the Replication of Entrepreneurial Education, Part 2: Raising the Money

Steve Mariotti | Posted 04.24.2013 | Business
Steve Mariotti

While on 23rd Street, we decided to start getting serious on the lesson plans. Mike Caslin had the insight that we needed to standardize and we started planning our first ever teacher training. The first one was in Boston and it was a disaster.

The Year In Education: A Look Back At 2012

| Posted 03.04.2013 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In 2012, new teacher-evaluation systems and merit pay spread across the country. Technolog...

Missouri Increases Standards For Teacher Preapration

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Jessica Bock | Posted 02.25.2013 | Home

Before stepping into her own classroom, Allison Brown wanted to be prepared for everything that becoming a teacher would throw at her. Planning and t...

Beyond 'Gay Day' Approaches To LGBTQ Inclusion In Schools

Elizabethe C. Payne | Posted 01.12.2013 | Gay Voices
Elizabethe C. Payne

Recognizing the need to include LGBTQ identities in school approaches to diversity and inclusion is an important step forward in making schools more welcoming places, but some of the patterns in these efforts are troubling despite their good intentions.

Teachers: The Next Generation's Most Valuable Assets for a Changing Employment Landscape

Mike English | Posted 12.25.2012 | Home
Mike English

Teachers are key to preparing for the inevitable job/skills disparity that arises in an ever-changing economy. Young job seekers need to be ready to adapt, which is what good teachers prepare them to do. Teachers create and fill jobs.

Constant Teacher Training Keeps Poor Jewish School Performing

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.25.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report and WNYC's SchoolBook. Tiferes Bnos is an all-girls school located on the first floor of an...

In Search Of High-Quality Teachers, Charter Network Trains Its Own

| Lillian Mongeau | Posted 12.24.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. OAKLAND, Calif. -- Amy Youngman's seventh- and eighth-grade humanities students had left f...

Scorched Earth

Brandon Greene | Posted 12.16.2012 | Home
Brandon Greene

If teachers are our number one resource, why do we treat them so poorly?

'Operation: Educate The Educator' Initiative For Military Kids

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 10.03.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- Madeline Stevens knows what it's like to be a military brat. "The first week of school, it's really hard," said Stevens, a 17-year-old ...

Can Twitter Replace Traditional Teacher Professional Development?

| Posted 08.03.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Twitter and Facebook might soon replace traditional professional develo...

MTA FIXING Subway Flaw Exposed By Viral Video

Posted 06.28.2012 | New York

Have a problem with something MTA-related? Make a viral video! And get commenters to mention the word "lawsuit." Wednesday we posted Dean Peterson'...

Millions Spent On Improving Teachers, But Little Done To Make Sure It's Working

| Beth Fertig and Sarah Garland | Posted 06.04.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Helping struggling teachers improve has become a big concern–and a big business–across...

Gap in Teacher Training

Jessica Minahan | Posted 06.25.2012 | Home
Jessica Minahan

Most degree programs include one or possibly two courses focused on teaching students with mental health disabilities and subsequent challenging behaviors. This leaves teachers to learn on the job in a busy classroom.

Numbers Game: America's Struggle To Make Math Fun

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2012 | Home

By Stephanie Simon April 11 (Reuters) - Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's...

The Global Search for Education: More From Finland

C. M. Rubin | Posted 06.06.2012 | Home
C. M. Rubin

"Our teachers in Finland are quite autonomous already. They are allowed to choose their methods and they are allowed to be creative."

State Senate OKs College Profs To Teach High School Without Training

Posted 07.23.2012 | Home

Anyone teaching in a college could be automatically eligible to teach in high schools, according to a bill passed by the Tennessee state Senate Monday...

A Tale of Three Teachers

John Merrow | Posted 05.30.2012 | Home
John Merrow

We need to make it more difficult to become a teacher, which we could do by raising standards for admission into training programs and then providing one-year apprenticeships before teachers are given their own classrooms.

Now What?

Jessica Siegel | Posted 04.24.2012 | Home
Jessica Siegel

In all this brouhaha about "quality teachers being the best predictor of student achievement," there is little discussion about how one becomes a quality teacher.

Duncan To Announce Teacher Contest Focused On Quality

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.16.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday spelled out details of a proposed new $5 billion Race to the Top-style competition foc...

New Obama Plan To Help Math, Science Teacher Prep

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 04.08.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he...

The Global Search for Education: Searching for Star Teachers

C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.31.2012 | Home
C. M. Rubin

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.