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Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food 1 elleng Jan 2017 Jan 2017 0 1527

Temple Grandin named to the National Womens Hall of Fame 3 elleng Feb 2017 Feb 2017 6 1596

Texas School Triples Recess Time, Solves Attention Deficit Disorder. 2 elleng Mar 2017 Mar 2017 7 1867

The best educational experiences are those where the teacher understands 4 elleng Mar 2017 Aug 2017 1 3439

'Last week the 7th graders visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as the culmination 1 elleng Apr 2017 Apr 2017 0 4847

'It is with great sadness that we share news that Gail Shandler, director of Lowell School 1 elleng Apr 2017 Apr 2017 4 6263

Building Information Literacy Skills in the Era of Fake News 0 elleng Apr 2017 Apr 2017 3 4505

Building Information Literacy Skills in the Era of Fake News 2 elleng Jul 2017 Jul 2017 3 1945

DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective. 3 elleng Jun 2017 Jun 2017 6 2605

Redesigning Social Studies Education: Empowering Students through Authentic Inquiry 4 elleng Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 2185

As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away. 2 elleng Jul 2017 Nov 2017 10 2828

Why Kids Shouldnt Sit Still in Class 4 elleng Aug 2017 Aug 2017 5 2910

Campus Hate Lives on the Internet. Administrators Need to Catch Up. 0 elleng Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 1825

Introverts and Schools 4 elleng Oct 2017 Jan 2018 3 2165

Educating Future Voters in the Age of Social Media 1 elleng Oct 2017 Oct 2017 1 1310

Reading buddies are such a hit at Lowell School. 4 elleng Nov 2017 Nov 2017 2 2026

Some Schools Are Abolishing Homework In Favor Of Reading, And That's A Good Thing. 5 elleng Nov 2017 Nov 2017 10 4890

How Reading Rewires Your Brain for More Intelligence and Empathy. 6 elleng Nov 2017 Nov 2017 14 2137

'Derelict' school becomes national leader by making a surprising subject compulsory. 2 elleng Dec 2017 Dec 2017 11 2860

Can Kindness Be Taught? 9 elleng Dec 2017 Jan 2018 5 1443

The French apprentices thriving on medieval roots 0 elleng Dec 2017 Dec 2017 3 1075

Can a No Excuses Charter Teach Students to Think for Themselves? 0 elleng Jan 2018 Jan 2018 2 1317

We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, 10 elleng Jan 2018 Jan 2018 5 1857

In Swedens Preschools, Boys Learn to dance and girls learn to yell. 2 elleng Mar 2018 Mar 2018 1 1479

As kindergarten ratchets up academics, parents feel the stress. 3 elleng Jun 2018 Jun 2018 1 1548

In the Age of Trump, Civics Courses Make a Comeback. 6 elleng Jun 2018 Jun 2018 10 2373

The Most Contrarian College in America 1 elleng Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1413

Rethinking What Gifted Education Means, and Whom It Should Serve 0 elleng Sep 2018 Sep 2018 5 1587

Play and Learning in Early Childhood 2 elleng Sep 2018 Oct 2018 5 2663

Real education: Lowell School 4 elleng Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1470

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Very pleased to see this today, 0 elleng Oct 2018 Oct 2018 7 1448

Students in the Explorer's room roll pumpkins down a hill observing physics in action. 1 elleng Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1283

Integration vs. Disipline-Based Approaches to Learning: Not an Either/Or 0 elleng Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1056

Students in Rural America Ask, 'What Is a University Without a History Major?' 4 elleng Jan 2019 Jun 2019 12 2834

Can anyone name this fiction book: a better world where children and adults learn at their own 4 ellenrr Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 1777

group in Colorado seeks to reclaim education 7 ellenrr Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 2254

Rush-hour protest by teachers to target the Gates Foundation 4 ellenrr Jun 2014 Jun 2014 12 1787

Montclair NJ rejects corporate deformers! 2 ellenrr Jun 2014 Jun 2014 6 1663

What's wrong with "school reform"? 3 ellenrr Aug 2014 Aug 2014 8 1783

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools 3 ellenrr Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 2044

anybody here teach phonological awareness? 11 ellenrr Dec 2014 Jan 2015 2 3004

10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure 1 ellenrr Sep 2015 Sep 2015 7 1621

Diane Ravitch on the East Ramapo School board, yeshivas and Orthodox Jews 3 ellenrr Oct 2015 Oct 2015 5 1848

Black Lives Matter, Teach for America, and Racial Justice in Education 2 ellenrr Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 1654

what happened to the $100 millions Zuckerberg gave to Newark schools? 1 ellenrr Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1487

Any GED teachers here? I have a couple of questions. nt 2 ellenrr Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 1504

University of Phoenix closing 115 locations (AP/BloomburgBusinessWeek) 5 eppur_se_muova Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2900

"I was the perfect double threat: ignorant and arrogant." (A reformer reformed) {xpost} 3 eppur_se_muova Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 2383

The disease is spreading to Canada ... 6 eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 Feb 2013 4 2398

In E-Mails, Former Indiana Governor Wanted Scholars Silenced (COHE) 7 eppur_se_muova Jul 2013 Jul 2013 7 2310

Anyone here ever deal with WyzAnt tutoring, either as a student or a tutor ? 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1674

How to learn like a memory champion (BBC) 0 eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1631

New insight into how children learn maths (BBC) 2 eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 10102

United States: Boy held for 'killing pet dinosaur' (BBC) {or, that's what he wrote ...} 2 eppur_se_muova Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 1782

'American Universities Are Addicted to Chinese Students' 5 eppur_se_muova Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1753

A shift toward private schools/colleges means a shift away from secular education. 2 eppur_se_muova Nov 2015 Nov 2015 2 1572

Educators Deserve A Raise, But The Proposed Merit Pay Bill Has Serious Flaws (al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 Jan 2016 0 1468

RAISE Act Of 2016 Is Fatally Flawed (Larry Lee) 0 eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 Jan 2016 0 1561

Alabama legislature is looking for an excuse to cut teachers' tenure (al.com) 2 eppur_se_muova Jan 2016 Jan 2016 0 1699

Not everyone's cheering as last textbooks leave Huntsville classrooms (al.com) 4 eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 Apr 2016 3 1740

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Gov. Bentley wants Alabama to be Massachusetts South? (John Archibald/al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Aug 2016 Aug 2016 2 1314

Alabama second in nation in school district secessions, report says (al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 2621

Creationism teaching ban to be considered (in Scotland) 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1796

"Changes to AP History make conservatives happy" 3 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2015 Aug 2015 10 2295

The Case for Federal Intervention in Math Education 15 ericson00 Jul 2015 Aug 2015 4 2267

Director of Private School Where Rahm Sends His Kids Opposes Using Testing for Teacher Evaluations 10 eridani Sep 2012 Sep 2012 9 3831

Now We Know Our ABCs. And Charter Schools Get an F. 2 eridani Sep 2012 Sep 2012 11 1999

Colman Chadam, California Boy, Ordered To Transfer Schools For Carrying Cystic Fibrosis Gene 1 eridani Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 2058

Why is the Private Prison Industry in our Public Schools? 2 eridani Nov 2012 Nov 2012 9 2664

26 Amazing Facts About Finland's Unorthodox Education System 3 eridani Dec 2012 Dec 2012 6 3541

Student Debt Crisis play FOR PROFIT to be put on and livestreamed at College of Wooster 0 eridani Mar 2013 Mar 2013 6 1805

The Secret to Fixing School Discipline? Change the Behavior of Adults 2 eridani Mar 2013 Mar 2013 8 2256

Educator Who Challenged Scott Walker's Vouchers Agenda Wins 61-39 in Wisconsin 1 eridani Apr 2013 Apr 2013 10 1856

Maybe it isn’t just the teachers in Finland 17 eridani Jun 2013 Jun 2013 43 3753

Does School Discipline Over Uniform Infractions Go too Far? 8 eridani Jun 2013 Jun 2013 1 3657

Insurers Refuse To Cover Kansas Schools Where Teachers Carry Guns Because It’s Too Risky 1 eridani Jul 2013 Jul 2013 4 1787

What Parents Want for Education Policy 8 eridani Jul 2013 Jul 2013 9 2626

Obama Proposes Linking Federal Aid to New College Ranking 1 eridani Aug 2013 Aug 2013 2 1621

Growing Charter School Chain Suspends Special Needs Kids in Bid to Raise Test Scores 6 eridani Sep 2013 Sep 2013 17 2583

How Test Obsession is Killing Education 1 eridani Oct 2013 Oct 2013 8 1731

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