Hamas’ version of Mickey Mouse, who taught Palestinian children to dream of killing Jews, is dead. In the final episode of the TV show, the animated rodent known as Farfour was beaten to death by an Israeli official who wanted to buy his land.
“Farfour was martyred while defending his land,” said Sara, the […]
Archive for May, 2008
Boston’s new school superintendent, Carol Johnson, raised test scores in Memphis by firing principals of persistently low-performing schools and forcing teachers to reapply for their jobs, reports the Boston Globe. But the teachers’ union vows to block similar moves in Boston.
Johnson will inherit Boston’s strategy for failing schools that Michael G. Contompasis, outgoing superintendent, […]
Wake County, North Carolina stopped assigning students by race and started using socioeconomic status instead. Bety explains why the district changed and how it’s worked.
Excess video gaming is a bad habit, not an addiction, the American Medical Association has decided. But the AMA called for more research.
The AMA’s report says up to 90 percent of American youngsters play video games and that up to 15 percent of them — more than 5 million kids — might be addicted.
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Federally funded tutoring improved reading and math scores for students in some large cities, according to an independent study for the Department of Education.
Under No Child Left Behind, students in schools that miss progress goals for three years in a row are eligible for tutoring.
The tutoring provisions in the law have been criticized […]
On a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the use of race in school assignments for the purpose of increasing racial diversity. The cases involved Seattle and Louisville but could affect many other school districts.
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of […]
Katherine Phillips, assistant principal of an elite private middle school in Kuwait, is trapped in the country. Her problems started more than a year ago, when she put several boys on in-school detention for a day for fighting. The well-connected father of one boy threatened to “destroy” her.
First, the school’s discipline policies were […]
On this week’s road trip edition of the Carnival of Education, hosted by Education in Texas, Mister Teacher praises a Canadian scheme to sell school naming rights to corporations.
I can already see sophomores walking around proudly displaying T-shirts that read, “Yo Quiero Taco Bell High School.”
In the graduation programs, the tired old classifications of […]
Boys are different from girls, writes Conn Iggulden, co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys, in the Washington Post. A former teacher, Iggulden thinks boys fail in school when they’re taught like girls.
Boys don’t like group work. They do better on exams than they do in coursework, and they don’t like class discussion. […]
Women, what are the books that changed your life as a girl? A Metafilter writer is working on a book for girls that will include “a chapter on books that every girl should read — books that changed your life, so to speak, and that you’d want your daughter to read before she’s grown up.” […]
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