Despite attending an LA high school known as a “dropout factory,” Luz Elena Gutierrez graduated as valedictorian and is going on to Berkeley.
From her older sister, Luz Elena learned not to wait — to push her way into the toughest classes, to demand the most engaging teachers, to compete for every academic honor. And not […]
Archive for May, 2008
To look as though they’re meeting No Child Left Behind goals, states are lowering standards, concludes a study of 12 states by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). Instead of educating more students to proficiency, states define proficiency down.
In California, for example, state officials in 2005 estimated 50 percent of fourth-graders were proficient […]
In the spirit of scientific inquiry and in honor of every one who ever built an erupting volcano for the science fair, here’s a video showing what happens when two guys combine Diet Coke and Mentos. Lots of Diet Coke and lots of Mentos.
It’s not your children’s job to make you happy, writes Betsy Hart.
Look, I’m crazy about my kids. I’m happy to see them get up in the morning and happy to see them go to bed at night. Often there are times of happiness and laughter with them — along with sheer exasperation in-between. But what […]
Tag is banned at recess at some elementary schools because it’s too dangerous, reports USA Today. The bellis tolling for “contact” sports such as soccer and touch football. According to Donna Thompson of the National Program for Playground Safety, educators worry about “kids running into one another” and getting hurt.
In January, Freedom Elementary School […]
Schools of education will be obsolete by 2036, predicts Peter Wood, provost of The Kings College in New York City.
In 2036, we will still need teachers. Educating and civilising children will always require real adults who enter into sustained relationships with students. But the kind of teachers we will need will be people who know […]
HomeSchool Cafe hosts the Carnival of Homeschooling while Melissa Wiley of The Lilting House, also a homeschooler, hosts the Carnival of Education.
Melissa’s oldest child survived leukemia as a toddler; her son, WonderBoy, is partially deaf and is dealing other problems with the help of a lot of early intervention. There are five children in […]
Eighth graders asked to write about their lives get hooked on writing, says a Philadelphia Inquirer story on a program called “freedom writers.”
Here’s a 15-year-old named David:
“I’m from Philly, the city people call Brotherly Love, where brothers have enough hate in them to pick up a 7 millimeter and murder their own blood. And as […]
Rod Paige, the former Education Secretary, blasts the “65 percent solution” (requiring 65 percent of education funds to be spent “in the classroom”) and argues for a Fordham-backed “100 percent solution” that would provide more funding for hard-to-educate students and let the money follow students. Some students need more from their schools, Paige writes. […]
Andrew Pass has started a blog on Current Events in Education.
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