Archives for March 12, 2012

You bet California's college students are angry — tuition increase after tuition increase, little relief in sight. As usual, it's a handful of GOP legislators who are holding up what everyone else wants: to close a $1 billion corprate loopho…

Via IDEA: The Institute for Democratic Education in America: "The Dear Mr. President national day of civic action is happening this Thursday, March 15! Students are encouraged to write President Obama about an issue that matters to them and share …

Exercising math visualization and reasoning muscles through play — way different than a worksheet, huh? Wish math was taught creatively and deeply this way everywhere!Playing with Mathcoopcatalyst.wordpress.comThis post was first posted on my personal…

Socmedia researcher Danah Boyd finds that most bullying is still f2f as opposed to online. Currently parents respond by teaching their kids to fear social media, but is that actually addressing problems that emerge there but have offline roots? And how…

Corporate interests ready to siphon taxpayer money spent to educate kids benefit happily from mean-spirited sides of human nature that resent and envy teacher job security, as evident in attacks from "no taxes ever" groups and public snipes a…

High costs and a correlation between SES-high standardized test scores combine to make elite colleges affordable for all but a few. Excellent public universities are also becoming increasingly unaffordable. This is a situation that reinforces, rather t…

Follow up on the story of 17 Chicago Public School closures & the lawsuit filed to halt them. Local School Council sites can attempt a second suit if they refocus civil rights violations claims.Judge throws out suit seeking to stop school closings …