Bilingual ability is good for your brain. We should be teaching our children as many languages as is appropriate to their cultures and abilities — it's the way of the future.Neuroscience and the Bilingual Brain | Edutopiawww.edutopia.orgCompared …
Archives for March 26, 2012
196+ school districts now are embroiled in Erase to the Top cheating scandals, w…
196+ school districts now are embroiled in Erase to the Top cheating scandals, where student scores were erased from wrong to right. High-stakes testing creates incentives that reward all the wrong things. Read the thorough Atlanta Journal-Constitution…
A 17-year old student grasps the flaws in "online education": lack of human ment…
A 17-year old student grasps the flaws in "online education": lack of human mentorship, cheating, shallow learning, profits for companies pushing these classes but poor classroom experiences for the students. Spot-on critique. Will greedy adu…
A MO school district's internet software appears to filter out LGBT-supportive s…
A MO school district's internet software appears to filter out LGBT-supportive sites but allows religious "pray away the gay" sites. Backdoor government promotion of religion? Missouri School District Questioned Over Anti-Gay Web Filterw…
Some good news to start Monday: an AP Calculus class that's 2/3 African American…
Some good news to start Monday: an AP Calculus class that's 2/3 African American enjoys high achievement and success. More of this math confidence & excellent teaching, please!Majority-Black AP Calculus Class Bucks National Trends – Education …