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Do Students Understand the Material? A New App Helps Teachers Know For Sure
GoSoapBox allows students to ask questions, vote up questions posed by their classmates, participate in discussions, or express confusion.
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Should Teachers Be Trained More Like Doctors?
A new report says that educators should be trained more like medical professionals. Do you agree?
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Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking?
What are the elements of a lesson plan to teach students how to think creatively and critically? And how do we measure what they've learned?
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How Effective Is Your Child's Teacher?
Meet John Smith, who is apparently among the least effective elementary school teachers in all of L.A., according this weekend's story in the Los...
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Teaching: A Student Called Jacqueline
A former grade-school teacher reflects on his Teach for America days. For years, I have been haunted by the fate of Jacqueline Barnes, my best...
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The Last Free Speech: Street Art at Manual Arts High School
World renowned artists are heading to South Los Angeles to collaborate with students and visually give voice to social and political issues.
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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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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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Do We Teach Math the Wrong Way?
A new report shows just how far behind American students lag when compared to other countries in math education.
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Sarah Palin: Guilty of Eye Rolling?
The maverick strikes again. Recently, while filming an episode for "Sarah Palin's Alaska," her forthcoming show on TLC, Sarah Palin encounters...
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Spike Lee Wants More Black Male Teachers
Forget business, law, and medicine. With black men making up only 1.7 percent of American school teachers, they need to head to the classroom.
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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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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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The Problem of Free Books
How The Fountainhead weaseled its way into the canon. Recently, a plea appeared on my twitter stream: “I'm begging for book money again: We are...
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Is This Really the Best a Man Can Get?
A teacher argues for the expansion of No-shave November. An untrimmed mustache is a despicable thing. I know this because I am an American,...
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Teaching: Notes from the Front Lines
On finding your element I just finished Ken Robinson’s book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. If you have not yet read...
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Are "Teacherpreneurs" the Future of Education?
A new book, "Teaching 2030," believes educators need to become entrepreneurially minded leaders.
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Dear Teacher: I Quit
A teacher helps his students make fewer mistakes in their own lives by sharing with them some of his own.
