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An End to Education Reform? by Michael S. Greve
Conservatives were reluctant to trigger a public spat over education with a new administration, but their failure to offer criticism and insist on choice was a mistake.The education "reform" about to emerge from Congress is a perfect disaster. Conser...
Open-Access Educational Model "Enhances Traditional Media"
I agree to professor Peter McPhee from Melbourne University, who says that there is not "substitute for face-to-face learning". But at the same time I deeply disagree when he says that open-access courseware as those offered by MIT rather than replac...
Being a Good Teacher Doesn't Mean You Have to Go to an Ivy League School
Recently, I subscribed to Teachers....and teaching a very inspirational blog about stories of "teachers and their teaching" headed by Les Blackwell. I recommend to you reading the last three posts(or blogs as he likes to name them), beginning with ...
Dumb Generation? Teens Are Just as Smart as They Ever Were
The USA Today commented on two books related to the digital age of Gen Y (ages 16-29). The first book is The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein.Bauerlein an English professor...
Assignments That Work On Technology-rich Learning Environments
The Journal:...It's vital to realize that when technology is integrated into a learning environment and students are using technology in their learning process, the assignments must also include technology use. That is, if, for example, students are ...
Schoolwork Using Laptops And Without Any Cheatings
The biggest obstacle in schoolwork has been cheating, and this article addresses that issue. It seems teachers had found a way to keep the students from cheating with computers and who knows with the iPod.From the BBC News:About 6,000 students in Nor...
The Curriculum Universities Should Have Today
It's very difficult to please everyone not only in the educational institutions but in our normal daily life. Authorities are supposed to understand the necessities of new students and if they are not, then research should be lay down and built a cur...
In Times of Crisis Find a Career That Generates Respect and Self-esteem
With thousands of layoffs on a daily basis, American are obliged to rebuild their careers goals. Not profession can walk away from recession. Finances used to be king, are not employing with big pay checks anymore. High School students and colleges ...
Why Witing Your Own Dissertation Pays Down the Effort
No all of us want or like to write or use, in a good way, our skills learned either in school or in our daily activities. With enough instruments at hand, many if not most of our students today, are forgetting how handwriting is like. No more epistol...
Obama 5 Main Points to Reform Education, But Without Enough Details
President Obama made his first big speech on Education today. (see transcript) The Big question is how is this reform going to happen, because he failed to give explicit detail as how he pretends to really change education in the United States.Among ...
Hot...For Education 2009
This week in Education is calling for nominations of its annual feature: Hot...For Education.Alexander Russo writes:I need your ideas. Alas, Jon Hamm and Angelina aren't educators, policy wonks, reporters, or staffers. But maybe there's someone you ...
AP Courses For Average Students. Is it the Solution for Lack of Scientific Reasoning?
While educators have long been reluctant to tinker with a system that worked for their best students, college admissions have grown more competitive and the middle has become harder to ignore. -Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford Universityâ...
Science: American College Freshmen Compared to Their Chinese Counterparts
All time we hear complains about math exercise of knowledge, but few comment on math experiences, or the meanings of symbolism in math. We even were told that U.S. struggling with a shortage of math and science teachers.But what's happening with all...
Ivy League Scholar Breaks the Rules, Waives the Fees, And Welcomes Harlem Residents
By Courtney E. Martin, Utne ReaderTrue teachers from Socrates to Dennis is that they really are midwives to their students’ thinking. Since thinking is imaginative, unpredictable, innovative, critical, and iconoclastic, it is a danger to the status...
How to Write in an Era of Full Online Distraction
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing.This is the statement Gary Doctorow explains in his relevant post, although not necessarily the e...
