Brendan GilliganIcon version of the Flipboard logo Florida: Death To Public Education huffingtonpost.com - Peter Greene Florida has long struggled to take the lead in the State Most Hostile To Public Education contest, with North Carolina, Wisconsin and Nevada giving …
Brendan GilliganTeaching Teachers are making millions selling their lessons plans online - Business Insider Business Insider - Associated PressMiss Kindergarten is in the million-dollar club. So are Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls, and about a dozen other teacher-entrepreneurs who are spinning reading, math, science and social studies into gold
Brendan Gilligan Trump considers tax credit to channel public money to private schools - POLITICO POLITICOThe Trump administration is considering a first-of-its-kind federal tax credit scholarship program that would channel billions of dollars to families from working-class households to enable their children
Brendan Gilligan The focus on maths and science doesn’t add up. The arts must be in the equation The Guardian - Kester BrewinThrowing resources at science, technology, engineering and maths in England hasn’t worked. We need to reaffirm the importance of a more rounded education As a long-time maths teacher, the latest assessments
Brendan Gilligan Trump's school choice expansion plan may face uphill battle apnewsarchive.com WASHINGTON (AP) — School voucher programs in the nation’s capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana could serve as a …
Brendan Gilligan For the First Time, You'll Be Able to Read Ancient Egyptian Literature in English pbs.org - Allison Eck It’s easy to swing by your local library and pick up a book by Homer or Sappho—two of the greats of ancient Greece. But finding translated works of …
Brendan GilliganEducation Boys 'twice as likely to fall behind girls' in early years bbc.co.uk - Hannah Richardson Boys are nearly twice as likely as girls to have fallen behind by the time they start school, a report says.
Brendan Gilligan US spending on prisons and jails grew three times as fast as spending on education in th... - Business Insider Business Insider - Caroline SimonA new federal report reveals that state and local governments have increased spending on prisons and jails at three times the rate they've increased spending on grade-school education in the last three
Brendan Gilligan Summer reading lists at prestigious private schools - Business Insider Business Insider - Abby JacksonIt's a time to indulge in the texts that are most appealing, without scrutiny: an easy beach read, a guilty pleasure, or that book you've always meant to start. But students at America's most prestigious
Brendan GilliganBooks 6 Story Arcs Define Western Literature, Data-Mining Study Reveals discovermagazine.com - Nathaniel Scharping Almost the entirety of Western literature can be fit neatly into just six story arcs, according to a new data-mining study. From the panoply of novels …
Brendan Gilligan New Data Analysis Suggests Only Six Book Plots Exist Gizmodo - Angela Chen Everyone who secretly thought that all novels have the same plot can feel vindicated by new research supporting that suspicion. Sort of. Researchers …
Brendan Gilligan No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down The Guardian - Philip OltermannPupils choose their own subjects and motivate themselves, an approach some say should be rolled out across Germany Anton Oberländer is a persuasive speaker. Last year, when he and a group of friends were
Brendan Gilligan Kansas court says funding plan averts need to close public schools Reuters - Kevin MurphyKANSAS CITY, Kan (Reuters) - The Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a bill state lawmakers passed last week resolves inequities in public education and will allow schools to open as scheduled August.
Brendan GilliganIcon version of the Flipboard logo CIVILIZATION V Being Developed For Use In High Schools — GameTyrant gametyrant.com
Brendan Gilligan Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design edutopia.org - Mary Wade To walk the talk of a real classroom community, we must ask ourselves if all of our resources are designed and arranged for the convenience of all …
Brendan Gilligan State-by-state look at chronic absenteeism across America apnewsarchive.com WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a challenge to teach children who aren’t in class — and new government numbers show more than 6.5 million students were absent …
Brendan Gilligan Charter schools' dire lesson: Deregulation invariably leads to disaster Salon - Bobbi MurrayThe original concept of charter schools emerged nationally more than two decades ago and was intended to support community efforts to open up education. Albert Shanker, then president of the American of
Brendan GilliganHere comes the charter school sneak attack: This is how a bipartisan education reform bill turns into a disaster for our Salon - Jeff BryantEveryone talks about the "do-nothing Congress" and how Republican obstruction has neutered the federal government. But recently there was one policy area where warring parties in Congress actually settled
Brendan Gilligan Arts Critical to STEM Learning Says Secretary of Education huffingtonpost.com - John M. Eger Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. talked to the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday and emphasized the importance of …
Brendan Gilligan Some Parents Of Color Don't Think Schools Are Even Trying To Educate Their Children huffingtonpost.com - HuffPost As policymakers and school districts gear up to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's new major federal education law, parents of …
Brendan Gilligan Ban homework: It doesn't help little kids learn—and it ruins their love of school Salon - Scott TimbergIf you are hoping to raise a child who always shares, who follows all the rules, and doesn’t act angry once in a while, you will want to skip the books by Heather Shumaker. A speaker and authority on childhood
Brendan Gilligan How to Implement Social and Emotional Learning at Your School edutopia.org - Maurice J. Elias The cornerstone of SEL efforts is the delivery of five essential skills and competencies to students (CASEL, 2013): Self-awareness: recognizing and …
Brendan Gilligan Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English Quartz - Jenny AndersonSchools face relentless pressure to up their offerings in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math. Few are making the case for philosophy. Nine- and 10-year-old children in England participated
Brendan GilliganTeaching Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let's ban elementary homework Salon - Heather Shumaker“There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.” This statement, by homework research guru Harris Cooper, of Duke University, is startling to
Brendan Gilligan "Something bold needs to happen": An in-depth look at millennial America Salon - Elias IsquithWhat explains the runaway success Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign has had so far among young Americans? Earlier this month, Salon spoke with leading Democratic Party pollster Stan Greenberg
