It’s Friday the 13th. Keep your paraskevidekatriaphobia in check.
If you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia, otherwise known as paraskevidekatriaphobia, today isn’t a great day for you. It’s Friday the 13th, and the phobia is all about a blinding fear of this day — however irrational it may seem. (But you can take heart; it’s the last Friday on the 13th day of any month in 2014, although 2015, […]
Mother of 7 in jail because her kids skipped school dies in cell
A 55-year-old Pennsylvania mother of seven, sentenced to serve two days in jail because her children were absent too much from school and she couldn’t pay some $2,000 in truancy fines, was found dead in her cell. The Associated Press reported that District Judge Dean R. Patton, who sent her to prison reluctantly, blamed a judicial […]
One thing we can learn from Shanghai: How to develop teachers
Shanghai has been No. 1 on the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, two straight times — in 2009 and 2012 — though it is now considering pulling out of the exercise in part, officials say, because they don’t want to place so much emphasis on standardized tests. That sounds refreshing. And here’s another lesson […]
Answer Sheet 6-12-14
Answer Sheet: Real learning doesn’t ‘look like 6-year-olds slumped in chairs … staring at iPads’ — parent tells school boardMassachusetts parent Tassia Thomas gave the following testimony to the Cambridge School Committee — a panel of seven members that sets policy and oversees Cambridge Public Schools – earlier this month. It appeared in Cambridge Day, which said it had lightly edited her comment