Parents need to know when to step back from helping with homework.
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Helping your teenager with their homework can make them feel incompetent and can hinder their own skills development.
Tying funding to disability categories is putting pressure on schools and parents.
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By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, conflicts between parents and teachers can arise.
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As the new school year begins, here’s some advice for how parents and teachers can get off on the right foot.
The beginning of any child’s school career can be a scary time. But parents and teachers can make it easier.
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It takes a combination of people, places and activities to make school a happy environment for kids. Here’s how teachers and parents can get involved.
Overworked and underpaid.
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Bring back collective bargaining to help fix the developing teacher crisis.
How much parent involvement is “just right?”
Spirit-Fire
Do expectations about the “right” parent involvement take into account America’s large diversity?
Should school students wear a uniform?
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Many schools claim that when students attend in uniforms, it improves discipline, and leads to academic gains. But does it?
Moroccan teacher Moulay Ismael Lamrani with his class. Research suggests that an induction year is extremely valuable for teachers just entering the profession.
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The first year at work is the toughest for novice teachers. Induction, guided by more experienced teachers, has proved an effective solution all over the world.
Should states test homeschoolers?
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Homeschooling regulations vary from state to state. And loopholes in these regulations could excuse parents from actually reporting the results.
Why are archaic tests being used today?
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When your kids (or colleagues) misbehave, does anyone give you five options, one of which is uniquely correct, to solve the problem? So, why do we continue to test students in this way?
Children light candles near the site of the attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
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After November 13, teachers in France asked themselves how they could talk to their students about the violence. The answers are both creative and deeply moving.
Coming to a classroom near you?
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Nicky Morgan has announced a scheme to give incentives for the best teachers to go to struggling schools. Will it work?
Where should schools draw the line?
MTSOfan
Courts have left teachers and administrators without adequate guidance on schoolchildren’s free speech rights. Should schools exercise censorship?
Why use corporal punishment?
Jeno Ortiz
An estimated 838 students per day receive corporal punishment across schools in 19 American states. Why does the practice continue?
Should schools rethink their schedule?
Lower Columbia College (LCC)
Some public schools have switched to a four-day school week. What does it change?
The supply of teachers cannot be turned on and off like a tap – it takes years to create a teacher.
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The narrow focus on grades and random employment statistics reflects a very simplistic view of our complex education system.
Why is there so much attention being paid to ‘word gap’?
Jeff Moore
Teachers often view vocabulary building as the most important aspect of education. In reality, there are lots of other early learning experiences that children need to develop.
Is it worth all this?
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We should be worried that half of teachers are thinking of leaving the profession.
Children may be absorbed in figuring out emotions of people important to them.
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Why does emotional learning matter for children?
Skulls of Homo naledi.
John Hawks
The discovery of Homo naledi has been a social media sensation, recording an extraordinary number of views – more than 170,000 – for a scientific paper.