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Should Teachers Be Allowed to Hate Blog About Their Students?
Teacher Natalie Munroe blogged about her students—and got suspended for it. Is calling kids "rat-like" and "lazy whiners" protected by free speech?
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This Mom Is Making Her Son Wear a Sign with His Terrible GPA on It
A Florida mother is taking a Scarlet Letter approach to her child's education. Is there any chance it will work?
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Nerds Rule: Watch This Kid Destroy the Dubious Physics of "My Little Pony"
Who knew an AP physics project about some obscure cartoon could be so damn entertaining?
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Why Creative Teaching is Essential For the Information Age
Abandoning a narrow, one-size-fits all approach to teaching would help students develop the curiosity they need to become innovators of the future.
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Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate?
One is an a la carte program of college level classes that's the traditional method for earning higher education credits for precocious high...
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Infographic: Educating the Workforce of the Future
In the next decade, most jobs will require at least some post-high school education. Are we setting students up for career success?
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Would a Laptop for Every Student Help? In Maine It Certainly Did
Since 2001, Maine's invested in laptops for every student. Now they're leading the world in tech education.
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Fifth-Year Senior: Why Making High School Longer Is a Brilliant Idea
Maine wants to accelerate the traditional secondary curriculum and bring introductory college courses down to high school.
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Education Reform? Student Activists Are Doing It Themselves
While debates about education policy rage on in Washington, D.C. many students are taking matters into their own hands.
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Should Best Friends Be Allowed?
This whole business of being a kid sure has become more complicated. As it concerns friend-making, for teenagers at least, the more friends they...
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Should an Ex-Porn Star Be Allowed to Teach?
In the 1990s, Tera Myers starred in pornographic videos. Now she's a top notch science teacher—who is losing her job because of her past.
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Are Standards of Beauty Redefined By Going Make-up Free?
Would you have dared to go bare-faced in high school? Would-or do-you now?
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Making Global Citizens
By 2010, President Obama’s goal is to produce an additional 8 million graduates. But will more graduates restore our position as global leader?
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know: The White House Fields Kids' Questions on Bin Laden
Our media-savvy White House hosted a webinar to give students a nuts-and-bolts backgrounder on 9/11, Bin Laden, and the raid.
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How California Schools Turned Struggling Students Into Second-Class Citizens
Color-coded student IDs and separate lunch lines ignited controversy in Orange County.
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Report Backs Up the Idea That College Shouldn't Be the Goal
You won't need a B.A. in anthropology to be an electrician or a dental hygienist.
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How One Chicago School Got Every Low-Income Student to College
100 percent of seniors at Chicago's Gary Comer College Prep have been accepted to four-year universities.
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What Teachers Can Learn from Hip-Hop Culture
Hip hop's premium on fresh new ideas and entrepreneurship could be exactly what's needed to save our schools.
