In a speech on Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Wisconsin high school student ripped pages from a Bible. He was suspended and told he can’t return to class without being cleared by a psychologist.
(Classmate Elle Jacobson said:) “He said he was going to do something that our little stupid minds wouldn’t be able to comprehend. […]
Archive for May, 2008
Just the other day, I was thinking about listening to Peter and the Wolf when I was a kid. Now, thanks to Ben Cunningham, I’ve discovered it’s possible to download classic children’s records from the ’40s and ’50s — including the same version of Peter we used to own — on Kiddie Records Weekly. They’ve […]
Playing with toy guns helps boys develop and learn, say the British government’s child development experts. The Department for Children, Schools and Families has advised staffers at preschools and play groups to “resist their ‘natural instinct’ to stop boys using pretend weapons such as guns or light sabres in games with other toddlers,” reports the […]
Home for a Jewish-Italian Hannakristmas, Dan Greene of Exponential Curve discovered his half-brother, a fourth-grader, understands fractions better than his ninth-grade Numeracy students at Downtown College Prep, a San Jose charter high school that recruits Mexican-American underachievers.
I struggle daily to get them to pay attention, to care, to think, to not give up […]
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reviews the free-speech battles of 2007 on college campuses including University of Delaware, Michigan State, Brown, University of Rhode Island, Colorado State, Gettysburg College, Temple, Occidental and San Francisco State.
Teacher Magazine features Donalyn Miller, a a sixth-grade teacher and “book whisperer,” who requires students to read 40 books of their own choice “in a variety of genres such as realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction.”
If I teach a lesson on conflict, eventually students will be asked to identify the conflict in their […]
Via Kitchen Table Math, here’s the Educational Jargon Generator.
Angered by thefts from backpacks at school, an 11-year-old Australian boy set a mouse trap for the sneak thieves.
Harry drew on know-how acquired from hours spent glued to the History Channel, his favourite program being a documentary about Vietcong-made traps in the Vietnam War.
On the fourth day, he placed a mouse trap with a […]
Over at the Carnival of Education, hosted by History is Elementary, Diana writes in praise of failure.
Po Moyemu is hosting 2007’s final Carnival of Homeschooling.
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