September 27, 2007 – 11:51 am
From the Guardian’s Bob Slavin: Which? doctor: “This month Slavin starts as founding director of York’s £11m Institute for Effective Education (IEE). The idea is to try to take the politics out of education policy by providing the bottom line in research on what works and what doesn’t. “The issue of evidence-based reform is the [...]
September 4, 2007 – 11:25 am
From ABC News’ article, entitled Math: Gift from God or Work of Man?: “School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science curricula in this country…Although some of the creation scientists’ arguments presented have a probabilistic flavor, the mathematics curriculum has seemed somewhat resistant to this trend. Recently a [...]
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Hillary Clinton always comes prepared: “If Clinton wins the Democratic nomination (which is far from preordained), it will be as much because of the skills on display at Dartmouth Friday as any other factor. Clinton is relentless, never skimping on her homework, never taking her privileged position (by marriage) in the Democratic pantheon [...]
Where the Arts Were Too Liberal: “This is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing.” [Editors comment: This was a sad week for progressive education. Traditional education is good for one thing: creating a workforce; progressive education, on the other hand, helps [...]
What Exactly is Montessori Education?: “On the 100th anniversary of the 1907 opening of Montessori’s first school—in the slums of Rome—5,000 schools devoted to her method dot the United States, with another 17,000 worldwide. Many are preschools, but some are for older kids as well….In many ways, Montessori education remains a cult: No one outside [...]
Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gets It Right: During the most recent debate, Congressman Ron Paul said that September 11th was blowback for our actions in the Middle East, which is the first time that I can think of when a national politician (and a Republican no less!) has actually told the American public the [...]
The Realignment of America:“It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for [...]
From For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too: For all their accomplishments and ambitions, the amazing girls, as their teachers and classmates [at Newton North High School, just outside of Boston] call them, are not immune to the…message: While it is now cool to be smart, it is not enough to be smart. [...]
From an open letter written by a sixth grader to the superintendent of schools in the town where I grew up: “Many of the Machon students and I request that you rethink your idea of closing the Machon School and transferring the children to different schools. The Machon School is a treasure in each student’s [...]
January 5, 2007 – 12:34 am
From A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: “The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income.”
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