Last week I posted my concerns about schools that are using block scheduling to allow students to take more classes in a year with less instructional time in each class. Several teachers discuss their local take on block scheduling on Joanne Jacobs blog. The most disconcerting post was from David:
” When I worked in NYC, we did this deliberately. In fact we offered 9 periods per day so the
Teaching Tolerance has some nice, simple lesson plans on religion:
BATON ROUGE, La.—A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to support a public awareness campaign against men who wear their pants so low that their boxer shorts show. Councilwoman C. Denise Marcelle has a slogan for the campaign: "Low pants, no chance."
"I hate to see it and I see so much of it in my district," Marcelle said. "It's disrespectful to the elderly, to young kids and to women."
Her resolution, on the agenda for discussion Wednesday, says wearing saggy pants creates negative stereotypes and that "those who wear saggy pants are hurting their chances of becoming employable, educated and productive
Margaret is marching in honor of her father, Thomas Dano. Her three sisters will be flying in from all over the U.S. to march with her: Patricia Dano from Maine, Eileen Dano-Tkacik from Pennsylvania and Dr. Jaculeen Dano from Texas.
When Margaret and her sisters were young, their father encouraged them to believe in themselves and to dream big. He was always there to coach, inspire, teach and nurture them to fulfill their potential.
When Margaret’s successful and otherwise healthy father turned 50, he started showing signs of Alzheimer’s: forgetting where he was, forgetting where things were, forgetting who people
A proposed Oklahoma ballot measure to increase education funding would tie lawmakers' hands during fiscal emergencies and decimate funding for other state services, economists from the state's top two public universities said Tuesday.
The two professors joined fiscal analysts from a pair of Oklahoma think tanks during a press conference at the Capitol to oppose State Question 744, one of 11 questions on the November ballot. If approved, it would amend the state's constitution to require
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El papel de lospadres y los maestros en la educación es sumamente importante para que los estudiantes logren sus metas académicas.
Este martes, la doctora Isabel contó con la presencia de la educadora Ingrid Robledo que habló sobre la necesidad de comunicación entre unos y otros.
"Como padres tenemos el compromiso de buscar que nuestros hijos tengan el entusiasmo de llegar más lejos de lo
What do you think the chances are that Oprah will reveal any of the material we reveal in Fewer than Six Degrees of Separation Between Barack Obama and Waiting for Superman?
Will she reveal the Gates connection? Probably. Oprah would see it as a positive plug for the film.
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ATTENTION Parents with children in Public School!
What does a school do when the first day back is a Wednesday, but students have the rest of the week off?
While some parents and students are threatening to boycott the first day of school, one school has found a different way to use the day, though not for instruction.
The Beacon School, a selective high school on the Upper West Side, is using tomorrow as a purely
Political action is very important to public education. CTA takes an active role in the political process to ensure friends of education are elected to public office and bills that enhance education and the teaching profession are enacted. Since 1863, CTA has been committed to keeping public education a top priority in California. This election year is no exception.
For this school year, I've been asked to support teachers in the writing portion of the English Language Arts Curriculum. I'm not a writing teacher by speciality but I'm a writer and a teacher so that's start.
As I scan the list of concepts and issues I've been asked to support, I continue to wonder about the relevance of these ideas for today's students:
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