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Why Alternative Education Needs to Go Mainstream
Dropouts in alternative programs get a personalized learning experience. Maybe if they had that in the first place they wouldn't leave school.
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Firewall, What Firewall? The Top Four Tech Hacks For Teachers
Districts block plenty of sites that are handy in the classroom. Here's how to get around those restrictions.
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Why Are Great Teachers Leaving the Classroom?
With so much focus about getting bad teachers out of the classroom, we're letting the really effective ones slip out the door.
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Are Schools on the Verge of a Mobile-Phone Revolution?
Over 75 percent of teens own cell phones, making them the perfect tool for learning—if teachers are on board with using them.
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How Blogging Helps Students Crush the Digital Divide
Forget pen and paper: This is a fresh way to get students from low income backgrounds excited about writing.
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Desks in the Hallway: A Texas School Takes Learning Out of the Classroom
Hallway learning stations prove that learning can happen at any time and in any place.
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Why Google+ Is an Education Game Changer
When it comes to teaching and learning, Google+ has some pretty serious advantages over both Twitter and Facebook.
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Why Is It So Hard To Put Imagination Back Into Schools?
A national "Imagination Summit" wants to help schools figure out how to bring creativity and innovation to the classroom. Is it really that difficult?
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Is College Worth the Money? Answers from Six New Graduates
Their answers about whether their degrees are worth it might just surprise you.
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Obama Made the Right Choice to Speak at the First Black High School in Memphis
Booker T. Washington High School beat out over 450 other schools to get President Obama as a commencement speaker.
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Will Videotaping Teachers Make Them More Effective?
Bill Gates says it will. Do you agree?
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City Year: What I've Learned So Far
City Year corps members based in Los Angeles and New York write about their experiences.
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A Case for Creative Rule-breaking
Kids crave firm, consistent rules. A teacher's perspective on how we might creatively enforce them.
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Slate's Classroom of the Future
The online magazine announces the winner of its contest to re-imagine where learning takes place.
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Slate Wants You to Design the Classroom of the Future
The layout of school classrooms hasn't really changed in more than a century. What should the classroom of the 21st century look like?
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Teaching: Thank You For Everything
How a teacher confronts the limits of his students' dedication. The year I turned 22, I went to the Mississippi Delta as a Teach for America...
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GOOD Video: Virtual Education
As we move into the future, educators are becoming more and more creative with how technology can advance our education tools. Applying the...
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Learning From the Uncomfortable Lessons of History
A surprising lesson that one teacher learns in teaching about genocide. Images of the Holocaust are projected onto my blackboard. The piles of...
