What motivates kids?
woodleywonderworks
What role does a bit of recognition play for students?
Dance is about creating work in a collaborative way.
Joseph Mehling
Liberal arts institutions teach students critical thinking skills. But rarely do they learn how to collaborate.
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 should schools need to moderate testing?
Innisfree Hotels
President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
Unequal education is a result of what happens in schools.
Rick Wilking/Reuters
Students in the same grade in the same school receive a very different education based on the socioeconomic status of their parents.
What are the challenges of expanding K-12 computer science education?
Berkeley Lab
Computer science has become a popular major and public schools want to extend instruction. Where are the teachers?
Music teachers are being evaluated on subjects they do not teach.
A steakhouse wouldn’t be evaluated based on a fish prepared at a seafood restaurant. But this is what teacher evaluation looks like.
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?
Can global campuses promise the same academic freedom?
Liz Lawley
As universities set up campuses globally, the blanket protections of academic freedom are becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee.
When does disciplining kids work?
Asim Bharwani
What happens when kids are put through harsh disciplinary measures?
Growing numbers of US students are going abroad to study.
British Council Russia
In recent years, a large market in higher education has emerged. From 2.1 million students studying abroad in 2001, the number has gone up to roughly 4.5 million. How is the US faring?
UCSF neuroscience grad student Sama Ahmed, whose three-minute talk on ‘how to know your species’ won first place at the campuswide contest, will compete for the Grad Slam championship in Oakland May 4.
Susan Merrell/UCSF
The president of one of the country’s leading research university systems argues that the academic community has to make sure researchers and scientists engage with the general public.
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.
Gender plays a role in what you read for courses.
COD Newsroom
Female scholars tend to assign more readings from women authors. But then male instructors assign more of their own work.
Arne Duncan opened the gates to a powerful network.
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Dem
By bringing private advocates to the fore in education, Arne Duncan further opened public education to privatized influences.
Why are there so many escalations with the police on campus?
Paul A. Hernandez
Routine interrogations between police officers and students have escalated into physical conflicts. Why do such escalations occur?
The atmosphere in classrooms in Finland is more relaxed.
Jari Sjölund
October 5 is World Teachers’ Day. How about paying some attention to how teachers experience their work? Do teachers in Finland have more autonomy when compared to those in the US?
The work of teachers is not valued as much as other professions.
BES Photos
There are plenty of signs that teaching as a vocation is in trouble in the US.
Children may be absorbed in figuring out emotions of people important to them.
Leonid Mamchenkov
Why does emotional learning matter for children?
Does homeschooling make children share the religious beliefs of their parents?
IowaPolitics.com
Conservative religious families turn to homeschooling as a way to ensure that their children will grow up to be like them. Does it work?
Digitally stressed?
Girl Image via www.shutterstock.com
Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
What’s the future?
Jens Schott Knudsen
Students at American universities are spending more and more years on completing their PhDs, only to find there are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs.
On the list of students’ struggles are basic necessities – food.
Tulane Public Relations
Students are going hungry on college campuses. The latest survey shows that four in 10 University of California students do not have access to nutritious food.
How well do students learn when a lesson is mainly in PowerPoint?
Henrik Berger Jørgensen
Slideshows, when designed right, can be a useful part of online instruction. But they shouldn’t be the main, or the only, method of instruction.