According to an article in this week’s Science Times, “some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong,” yet schools and parents continue to teach students methods have been proven to be ineffective. How do you study best? Do your study habits run counter to advice your teachers, parents or schools have given you?
In “Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits,” Benedict Carey writes:
 | Colleen Kelley was among the Weymouth residents who volunteered to work as a school crossing guard before local school officials found the money to hire guards. “I’m just concerned with the safety of the kids, ” she said. (John Tlumacki/ Globe Staff) |
With cash-strapped cities and towns scouring budgets for expenses to slash, they’ve cut back on everything from teachers to libraries and sports programs, and as school begins this year, parents in some places were dismayed to learn of one of the latest economies.
“How could they cut back on crossing guards?’’ exclaimed Richard Doyle, whose 9-year-old son found no escort to cross the busy street in front of Weymouth’s Frederick Murphy School last week.
Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
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Ferndale teachers voted Tuesday to strike, postponing the start of classes that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
The Bellingham Herald reports that a bargaining session with a mediator Tuesday afternoon yielded no progress.
Ferndale Education Association President Tracie Morris says the sticking point is more planning time for elementary school teachers. Morris says they now average 24 minutes a day and the union wants at least
At a time when California's public universities are bemoaning the decline of state funding as a piece of their overall budgets, one highly ranked public graduate school is planning to forego state funding altogether in favor of greater flexibility.
Officials at UCLA's Anderson School of Management say forfeiting state funding would give the school more freedom to set fees and spend fee revenue. The plan – described by UCLA as financial self-sufficiency – woul
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:
