Arianna Huffington How Life Became an Endless, Terrible CompetitionThe Atlantic - Daniel MarkovitsMeritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out. In the summer of 1987, I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed
Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 YearsThe Atlantic - Natalie WexlerSchools usually focus on teaching comprehension skills instead of general knowledge—even though education researchers know better. Every two years, education-policy wonks gear up for what has become a
Building a Better GlobalizationHarvard Business Review - Kimberly ClausingTrade barriers and immigration restrictions create large collateral damage; such “cures” are worse than the disease. If economic nationalism is not the answer, what is? We need better policies for supporting
Why Feedback Rarely Does What It’s Meant ToHarvard Business Review - Marcus Buckingham and Ashley GoodallManagers today are bombarded with calls to give feedback—constantly, directly, and critically. But it turns out that telling people what we think of their performance and how they can do better is not
NoneThe Atlantic - Noah SmithThe WTO demonstrators were the "Occupy" movement of the late-20th century—mocked, maligned, and mostly right. In 1999, my friend moved to Seattle, where he was hit with rubber bullets, tear-gassed in face,
Education Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly WrongThe Atlantic - Natalie WexlerIn the early grades, U.S. schools value reading-comprehension skills over knowledge. The results are devastating, especially for poor kids. At first glance, the classroom I was visiting at a high-poverty
Cities Intelligent - rather than smart - cities can address the roots of urban challengestheconversation.com - Sylvie Albert The term “smart city” has gained in popularity, but the label still conjures the use the technologies to solve operational problems. Rather, cities …
Standardisation broke education. Here's how we can fix our schoolsWired UK - Ken Robinson We are all born with fathomless capacities, but what we make of them has everything to do with education. One role of education is to help people …
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Columbia University For Kids With Anxiety, Parents Learn To Let Them Face Their FearsNPR - Angus ChenThe first time Jessica Calise can remember her 9-year-old son Joseph's anxiety spiking was about a year ago, when he had to perform at a school concert. He said his stomach hurt and he might throw up.
Empathy The End Of EmpathyNPR - Hanna RosinMilitia leader Ammon Bundy, famous for leading an armed standoff in Oregon, had a tender moment in November of last year. He recorded a Facebook post saying that perhaps President Trump's characterization
Science A Math Teacher's Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He MentoredNPR - Joe PalcaGeorge Berzsenyi is a retired math professor living in Milwaukee County. Most people have never heard of him. But Berzsenyi has had a remarkable impact on American science and mathematics. He has mentored
High School What If The Future Of Work Starts With High School?Forbes - Heather E. McGowanNearly 100% of the jobs created during the economic recovery went to workers with postsecondary education training. That training really begins in high school. The work of the future will require a robust
In An Increasingly Polarized America, Is It Possible To Be Civil On Social Media?NPR - Jasmine GarsdTyler and Larry have never met. Larry is a conservative living on the East Coast. Tyler is a liberal in Indiana. If for some reason they crossed paths on the street, they wouldn't recognize each other.
Do You Speak My Language? You ShouldThe New York Times - By BÉNÉDICTE DE MONTLAURIn January, the Modern Language Association made an astonishing announcement in The Chronicle of Higher Education: From 2013 to 2016, colleges across the United States cut 651 foreign language programs.
The Most Powerful Activist in America Is DyingPOLITICO - By ARTHUR ALLENAdy Barkan has a terminal illness and can barely speak. That hasn't stopped him from using his voice—and his ailing body—to fight for a progressive agenda. The last few times Ady Barkan got arrested in
13 things mentally strong people won’t doLadders - Travis Bradberry We all reach critical points in our lives where our mental strength is tested. It might be a toxic friend or colleague, a dead-end job, or a …
College Completion Rates Are Up, But The Numbers Will Still Surprise YouNPR - Elissa NadwornyGo to college, we tell students. It's a ticket out of poverty; a place to grow and expand; a gateway to a good job. Or perhaps a better job. But just going to college doesn't mean you'll finish. To unlock
Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.The New York Times - By MATT RICHTELExcerpted from “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System,” published on Tuesday by William Morrow. [Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times
Plastic Commentary: 4 Ways To Reduce Plastics And Other Single-Use Disposables In Your KitchenNPR - Kristen HartkeThe 40 days of Lent, which began last week, are a time when many Christians around the world decide to voluntarily give up bad habits or luxuries. This year, it might be time we all consider how to give
This Memphis teacher’s favorite student didn’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. She taught him a powerful lesson.chalkbeat.org - By Caroline Bauman When one of Daniel Warner’s favorite students refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, he could feel the tension in himself rising. It was …
Icon version of the Flipboard logo In education, the old standards worked better than the newajc.com - John Rosemond Fact: The teacher-pupil ratio has little to do with student achievement, as demonstrated in the 1950s when elementary classrooms were bursting at the …
Teaching Here’s what happened to the four 2016 finalists for National Teacher of the Year. It tells a lot about the profession today.The Washington Post - By Valerie StraussNate Bowling was the 2016 Washington state Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for the National Teacher of the Year. There were three other finalists who were the winners in their states that
Gutting US foreign language education will cost us for generationsCNN - By Ruth Ben-Ghiat(CNN) — Monolingualism (the ability to speak only one language) may sound to some like a disease, and it's certainly a condition that's spreading throughout American higher education. According to the
Postural Restoration: The Simple Exercise That Can Combat Stress And Poor SleepEsquireAfter years playing professional rugby, Third Space trainer and Esquire fitness columnist Luke Worthington was suffering with a recurring shoulder injury that was preventing him from working out properly
'We can't let education fall victim to edtech'tes.com - By Kester Brewin Some two decades ago, I went for a job and, when asked if I needed any special equipment for my interview lesson, I asked if I might have an overhead …
Students Teacher: What happened when I stopped test prep and focused on building relationships with my studentsThe Washington Post - By Valerie StraussGoogle the words “test prep”and “teachers,” and you might get something close to the same number of results as I did: 428 million in 0.65 seconds. That’s a heck of a lot of focus on test prep, and there’s
Homework Down With Homework, Say U.S. School DistrictsThe Wall Street Journal. - Tawnell D. HobbsMore districts ban or stop grading it amid complaints of overload, but some parents and teachers aren’t on board School districts across the country are banning homework, forbidding it on certain days
Lesson plan: Elevate student voice by teaching the power of listening | Lesson Plan | PBS NewsHour Extrapbs.org Lesson plan: Elevate student voice by teaching the power of listening This Thanksgiving holiday, teach students the importance of storytelling, and …
How to Actually Stop Slouching All the TimeVICE - K. Aleisha FettersRight now, in all likelihood, you're hunched over a laptop, or maybe you're sitting on the train, your head tilted down at your phone, trying to read this article. And you know it's not good: When it to
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Yo Azama Burned out: why are so many teachers quitting or off sick with stress?The Guardian - James Tapper
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