Mississippi
Breastfeeding and the Achievement Gap
In Mississippi, the gap could narrow if more moms nursed their babies, so why don’t they?
Mississippi
Vouchers may be ticket out of public schools for kids with disabilities—but is that a good thing?
Mississippi may become the 14th school voucher state. Have voucher programs actually helped kids in other states?
94
percent of decisions for lower secondary schools are made at the school level in the Netherlands
In Dutch schools, more time in school and more educator control
K-12
Where have all the black and brown teachers gone?
As a fifth grade student in Clarksville, Tenn., a small city near Nashville, I constantly got in trouble. Just about every day, I came home with a pink slip. I…Read more
Common Core
Common Core math experts say teachers need to stop using shortcuts and math ‘tricks’
Think back to your elementary school math classes. Were you told to think of a greater-than sign as Pac-Man or to cross-multiply when dividing fractions? You weren’t alone. Tricks to…
Common Core
What makes a good Common Core math question?
Both the math and English Common Core standards have their share of critics but it’s math that gets special condemnation, as the new problem worksheets land on kitchen tables across…
Common Core
New York school beats the odds by “going rogue” on Common Core
GAINESVILLE, N.Y. — More than a dozen third-graders were doing squats on a snowy Monday morning, followed by punches and push-ups, but they weren’t in gym class — this was…
“Sometimes it’s cheaper to just buy a new car than to fix a damaged one. The Common Core should be scrapped. As soon as you fix one thing, something else pops up elsewhere that’s equally problematic.”
Will test-based teacher evaluations derail the Common Core?
Never Too Early
How do you make a baby smart? Word by word, a Chicago project says
CHICAGO — On the third-floor hospital maternity ward at the University of Chicago, Bionka Burkhalter had just given birth to her first child, a 7-pound-4-ounce boy named Josiah. There was…
K-12
Opinion Want to close the achievement gap? Start quality education well before children are 5 years old
If children know their colors, shapes, numbers and letters, are they all set to succeed? The reality is there is so much more we must do to set our earliest…
Blended Learning
What to do for kids with no internet at home? How about parking a wifi-enabled school bus near their trailer park?
SALTON CITY, Calif. – Near the shore of the murky Salton Sea in this southern California desert, a bus drives up to West Shores High School each day with…