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Two Angry Teachers Protest California's Standardized Testing with Another Music Video
It's standardized testing time in California, which means the anonymous pink-slipped duo Two Angry Teachers and a Microphone are back with...
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Your Favorite Public Education Reformer Probably Went to Private School
Many of today's prominent education reformers attended private school. Their policies for public schools are a far cry from that experience.
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Skype's New Education Platform Connects Classrooms Around the Globe
Teachers have long embraced Skype. Now the company is embracing them back with special features for educators.
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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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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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Solving the Creativity Crisis: The "No Right Brain Left Behind" Challenge
The brightest creative minds from American industry are gathering to make sure schools teach conceptual, big-picture thinking.
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Laura Bush Thinks "Middle School Matters" and She's Right
The Former First Lady wants to stop the nation's dropout crisis before kids even get to high school. The research backs her idea up.
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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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Learning History to the Tune of Lady Gaga
Two extremely clever history teachers from Honolulu transform pop songs like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" into video lessons about European aristocrats.
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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 New Report Says that Educators Should Be Trained More Like Medical Professionals. Do You Agree? Answers
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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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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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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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Dear Teacher: I Quit
A teacher helps his students make fewer mistakes in their own lives by sharing with them some of his own.
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Meet Danny, the Jungle Man
A teacher is reminded that the lessons that really stick are rarely a part of the official course material.
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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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Davis Guggenheim on Great Teachers
Check out this animated short from Take Part's chat about great teaching with Waiting for "Superman" director Davis Guggenheim.
