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23 Delicious Breads

Sunset Centennial SourdoughMake the West’s iconic bread from scratch using our easy, no-fail starter recipe.Recipe: Sunset Centennial SourdoughTrue …

Breakfast

Four recipes for classic quick pasta sauces

Basil pestoDon’t skimp on the nuts and cheese here. To use as a pasta sauce, spoon the pesto into a large bowl and add just-cooked, drained pasta. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, (Canongate)Makes about 400g 175ml extra virgin olive oil About 2 big bunches fresh basil leaves, roughly chopped 1-2 …

Italian Food

Ten books every teacher should read

In the last decade, a wealth of books has brought together ideas to help teachers have the greatest impact on student learning. Here are just a fewPlato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education – there’s a strong case to be made, as Dennis Hayes has, that these are the only …

Pedagogy

The 20 best college towns in America

Boulder, Colorado, is the top-ranked college town in the US, according to a list from the American Institute for Economic Research.The city of roughly 200,000 (for its metro area population) earned the top spot thanks to its accessibility — more than 20% of commuters take public transportation or …

College & University

8 websites to find recipes that will shake up your food rut for good

Even if you love cooking and eating, it’s hard to keep your food game fresh. Buying the same old stuff at the grocery store and cooking up the same …

A Plan For Raising Brilliant Kids, According To Science

Since NPR Ed first published this piece last year, it has become one of our most popular posts of all time. And since then, there has been a little anecdotal proof of concept for these parenting theories:Kathy Pasek, one of the authors interviewed, has a son named Benj Pasek. He is a composer who, …

Pedagogy

Hair Color

Response: 'Flipped Learning' Does Not Just Mean 'Posting Videos'

(This is the first post in a two-part series)The new "question-of-the-week" is:What are the best ways to make a flipped classroom work?There is a lot …

Education Technology

The Five Basic Sauces

Knowing the five basic “mother sauces” is as helpful to the food lover as it is to the chef. Understanding these sauces will help you read menus, …

New Study On Cellphones Helpful To Teachers Everywhere

Earlier this year I posted Here Are Two Activities I’ll Be Doing With My ELL Students The Day We Come Back From Break, which I included a lesson I …

Teaching

Can you solve it? Pythagoras's best puzzles

Three teasers from the vaults from the great Greek mathematician and philosopherUPDATE: The solutions are now up – see them hereHi guzzlers,The most famous theorem in maths is named after the Greek thinker Pythagoras. So is the most famous recreational mathematics publication in the …

Greek Philosophy

A Visual Guide to Spice Combos So You Can Season Like a Champ

How many times have you started a recipe only to realize you’re missing four of the spices listed? Or you just downed the best spoonful of chicken …

Curries

Mathematical Model Reveals How French Riots Spread via a Giant Wave of Contagious Violence - MIT Technology Review

Clichy-sous-Bois is a deprived area of northeast Paris where youth unemployment is rampant, racial tensions are high, and relations with the police …

Justice

Stacked Wood Screens Are Certainly One Way to Cover Your Fireplace

Making one is easier than it looks.Are you someone who would rather just turn on the heat instead of spending time and energy building a fire (or cleaning up the messy remnants the day after)? Then you're going to love this eye-catching DIY.This pin on Pinterest.Using wood logs and black paint, …

Fireplaces

5 Big Ideas In Education That Don't Work

Small classes. High standards. More money. These popular remedies for school ills aren't as effective as they're sometimes thought to be. That's the somewhat controversial conclusion of education researcher John Hattie.Over his career, Hattie has scrutinized more than 1,000 "meta-analyses," looking …

Education

Want to Raise Successful Kids? Neuroscience Says Read to Them Like This (but Most Parents Don't) | Inc.com

If you're like most parents, you'll do just about anything you can to increase the odds that your kids will be successful.So, what if I were to tell you there's a simple thing you can to do to make it more likely that they'll be successful in life -- specifically by increasing the likelihood that …

Self-improvement

The Reward Chart That Changed Everything In My House

Right when we become fooled into believing that we have mastered a certain tricky stage in our child’s development, a new one smacks us right in the …

Parenting

This beer is perfectly optimized for glorious shower drinking

LONDON — There are few things in life that sound more appealing than a cold, refreshing beer while you're standing in a warm shower.One microbrewery …

This genius cooking system will help you plan ahead to eat well all week long

In the new year, many of us resolve to cook more often—a habit that’s healthier, cheaper, and often more enjoyable than eating out or ordering Seamless. Yet it can be hard to find the time to devote to meal preparation, much less creative menu-planning.It’s little wonder, then, that meal kits like …

3-D Fractals Offer Clues to Complex Systems

By folding fractals into 3-D objects, a mathematical duo hopes to gain new insight into simple equations.If you came across an animal in the wild and …

7 books that will change the way you work in 2017

Over the past year, we've covered a bunch of books that redefine "work" and offer solid tips for making it a less terrible way to spend your time.Our list is a diverse sampling of advice and strategies from business-school professors, psychologists, and career coaches — all with the same goal of …

Self-improvement

Four benefits and an opportunity in the Flipped Classroom approach!

It has been over eighteen months since I attended a workshop and introduced to the Flipped Classroom. The presenter discussed the ability of her …

Learn Python: A Free Online Course from Google

Google has created a free Python class designed for "people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python." A fortunate thing …

11 Most Genius Organizers on Amazon Right Now

Prepare yourself: You're going to want to buy all of them.What if we told you there's a magical place where, at the touch of a button, your home would be the most organized it's ever been. Well, it exists and it's called Amazon. Sure, you have to pay for products to get it that way, but we've come …

Giving children computers basically does the opposite of what you expect

For better or for worse, homework has gone online. Children these days conduct research on the Internet, post messages to classroom discussion boards or complete Web-based learning programs. The Federal Communications Commission warns that students who don’t have fast Internet connections “are at a …

Achievement Gap