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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?

What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?

Our standardized approach to education has a siloed understanding of what it means to be creative. Here's what schools should be teaching instead.

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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't

Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't

More than 60 percent of students who qualify to take an AP exam never do. Guess who's getting left behind?

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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education

It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education

This weekend's TEDxAshokaU event is bringing together innovators who are shaking up higher education.

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Harvard Looks Beyond Lectures to Keep Students Engaged

Harvard Looks Beyond Lectures to Keep Students Engaged

If the school's new effort is a success, the days of bored students checking Facebook during lectures could be over.

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A Nonprofit Publisher Puts Another Nail in the $200 Textbook Coffin

A Nonprofit Publisher Puts Another Nail in the $200 Textbook Coffin

OpenStax believes its free books can save students millions.

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A Design Team Rebrands the Teaching Profession

A Design Team Rebrands the Teaching Profession

Kiss the apple and one-room schoolhouses imagery goodbye. Design firm Hyperakt rebrands the teaching profession for the 21st century.

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Obama Turns the Spotlight on STEM Teacher Training at White House Science Fair

Obama Turns the Spotlight on STEM Teacher Training at White House Science Fair

If we don't train 100,000 teachers, who will educate the next generation of rock star science fair winners?

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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily

Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily

A 30-year study shows that building a student's intrinsic motivation works, not giving them prizes.

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Only Four Percent of College Students Are Black Males

Only Four Percent of College Students Are Black Males

A new study sheds some light on how to grow their ranks.

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High School Students Explain How Budget Cuts Have Hurt Their Schools

High School Students Explain How Budget Cuts Have Hurt Their Schools

Classes with 50 students, students with no desks, and one science teacher for an entire campus: Welcome to the world of high-school budget cuts.

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What Really Helps Community College Students Succeed?

What Really Helps Community College Students Succeed?

With only 22 percent of community college students earning a degree in three years, something has to change.

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Ellen DeGeneres Helps Heroic Teacher Who Pledged to Work for Free

Ellen DeGeneres Helps Heroic Teacher Who Pledged to Work for Free

Sara Ferguson, a third generation teacher in Chester, Pennsylvania, gets a sweet surprise.

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New Petition Asks Obama to See Children as More Than Test Scores

New Petition Asks Obama to See Children as More Than Test Scores

The petition calls for the creation of a committee on the "whole child."

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College Students Are Awesome: Meet the Man Who's Tutoring Low-Income Students for Free

College Students Are Awesome: Meet the Man Who's Tutoring Low-Income Students for Free

John Stamm is offering free tutoring to low-income students in Kansas City.

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Can Schools Create a Culture of Learning By Doing?

Can Schools Create a Culture of Learning By Doing?

Ensuring students know academic content is great, but teaching them to do something with it is essential.

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What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Education Systems?

What Can America Learn From the World’s Most Successful Education Systems?

School redesign expert Linda Darling-Hammond explains why we'll be a prison nation if we don't implement major reform

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Click "Like" After Class: Yale Professor Chooses Internet-Free Lecture Hall

Click "Like" After Class: Yale Professor Chooses Internet-Free Lecture Hall

Yale art history professor Alexander Nemerov found an old-school way around student's checking Facebook in class.

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