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How important are subjects like science and math in education compared to the arts?
It’s a question that comes up pretty often, especially when the arts programs are getting cut to meet a budget or to fit in more preparation for state tests. And on the surface, it is easy to understand why some subjects are [...]
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In my year of teaching in one of the lowest performing school districts in the country, I learned an astonishing truth: the poorest kids in the worst schools in the country (if you allow me to generalize from my limited experience) are basically just as capable as the kids who went to my high school, one of the richest private schools in the country (graphic).
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I had an interesting conversation recently about education with a friend of mine whose wife consults for a school system. We talked a little bit about No Child Left Behind and the effect it can sometimes have on schools that put a heavy emphasis on testing.
This reminded me of a video a saw sometime ago [...]
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A recent edition of Newsweek announced a list of the 1,000 top high schools in the United States. Jay Mathews, an education columnist for the Washington Post, devised the ranking system used to evaluate the schools. As the Newsweek article states, schools were ranked according to a ratio of “the number of Advanced Placement and/or International Baccalaureate [...]
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The following is a copy of an email sent by a fellow teacher to Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram newspaper in response to Kennedy’s article on Newsweek’s ranking of the 1,000 top high schools in the country. Kennedy’s reply to the email can be found at the bottom of the page. (Names may have been [...]
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.