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Telling Tales Out of School: What Education Systems Reveal About Culture

New York Times Education - 3 hours 4 min ago

Lesson Plan | In view of the post-earthquake state of Haiti's schools, considering the relationship between education and community and national culture.

N.Y.C. School Built Around Unorthodox Use of Time

Education Week - 3 hours 17 min ago

A small public high school structures educators’ roles and schedules so that students—and teachers—have more time to learn.

College and Career Standards Catching On in States

Education Week - 3 hours 30 min ago

A new report shows that 31 states now have such standards, but many have yet to embrace matching "comprehensive" accountability systems.

Going From STEM to STEAM

Education Week - 3 hours 33 min ago

For a greater global payoff, writes Joseph Piro, give the science, technology, engineering, and math acronym an A—for the arts.

Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine

Education Week - 3 hours 34 min ago

Sidney Trubowitz looks back 50 years and wonders how his first class of 4th graders would have fared if he'd been worried more about test scores.

Cedar Falls schools offer early retirement

Teacher Magazine - 4 hours 9 min ago

NYC graduation rate up 2.6 points to 59 percent

Teacher Magazine - 4 hours 32 min ago

Archbishop defends decision on lesbians' children

Teacher Magazine - 4 hours 39 min ago

6 Md. school systems get waivers due to snow

Teacher Magazine - 4 hours 44 min ago

First lady to deliver 3 commencement addresses

Teacher Magazine - 4 hours 54 min ago

PAR: traditional schools can use charters' ideas

Teacher Magazine - 5 hours 51 sec ago

Colleges don't like senior slump in high school

Teacher Magazine - 5 hours 2 min ago

Lesbian fights to take girlfriend to prom in Miss.

Teacher Magazine - 6 hours 5 min ago

Senators Highlight Rural-State Issues

Education Week - 6 hours 52 min ago

Twenty-two Democratic senators want the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to make sure rural schools get a fair shot at the roughly $3 billion in new competitive-grants.

Election Loosens Conservatives' Hold on Texas Board

Education Week - 7 hours 3 min ago

The Texas state education board's Christian conservative bloc was weakened Wednesday after one of its most prominent members lost his seat.

Fla. penalties may stiffen for student-teacher sex

Teacher Magazine - 7 hours 8 min ago

Preschool

Education Week - 7 hours 20 min ago

As a region, the South has become a national leader over the past decade in providing support for prekindergarten programs, says a new study by the Southern Education Foundation.

Transparency and the House of Mirrors

Education Week - 7 hours 23 min ago

District leaders should steer clear of the ubiquitous word "transparency" until they've figured out what it means, Patrick F. Quinn writes.

Teacher Layoffs

Education Week - 7 hours 27 min ago

Teachers in two districts overwhelmingly support using factors in addition to seniority to determine who should be laid off, according to a survey by the New Teacher Project.

U.S. teachers are more interested in collaborating and getting support from administrators to promote student achievement than in boosting their paychecks, according to a survey of more than 40,000 K-12 teachers.

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