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Education & Youth
30 Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: How We Lost Our Bearings: Part 3
When it comes to educational attainment socioeconomic and racial inequality has always existed in America.
Virtual Learning and Social Currency
I believe we have the capacity to interact with each other and create learning communities that are personalized, engaging, relevant and rigorous academically.
30 Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: Debate Centered on Crisis Rather Than Solutions
The National Commission on Excellence in Education clearly conveyed the ideal of a Learning Society by its
Thirty Years Adrift on an Ocean of Reforms: We Set Our Course on Standards and Tests
This nation.s children deserve a better standard of practice than teaching to the test.
Are Ecology/Biology Professors Obligated to Lie to Their Students About Their Future on Planet Earth?
I have sought refuge within my own life span with the default rationale. We all have.
K-5 Students Deserve a Quality STEM Education, Not Human Rights Violations
Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.
Valdemar W. Setzer on the Obsolescence of Education
My impression is that education is getting worse, and one of the main causes for this is the use of electronic media.
On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org Organizes Communities to Defend Their Schools From NCLB
It's time for the voices of parents, teachers and students to be heard and respected.
Truthout Interviews Featuring Adam Bessie and Dan Carino on Bill Gates, Graphic Journalism, and the Education Reform Hype Machine
Ted Asregadoo speaks to English Professor Adam Bessie and Graphic Journalist Dan Carino about Bill Gates' free-market education reform movement that emphasizes a more technocratic and quantitatively rigid curriculum.
A Teacher Remembers His Class Before the Age of Facebook
Thirty-five human beings sharing the same space met in real time and bonded around a common experience. But, that world in education is slowly slipping away.