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Culture
Is Love the Key to Learning?
Columnist David Brooks penned a commentary in which he argues that students’ emotional relationships with…
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Arts + Letters
Pharrell Takes Authentic Assessment to a Different Level
There’s something so pure about artistic forms of assessment. When I was teaching, I was a fan of the book…
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Administrators
One Piece of Advice for Any Teacher, Anywhere
I work with lots of teachers and I am in lots of schools. It occurred to me not so long…
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English Language Learning
What’s Your Capacity for Language? See What Chomsky Thinks.
I have re-watched this several times, always intrigued by Chomsky’s notion that what happens internally (within the mind) when one…
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STEM
That Not-To-Mathy Explanation of Algorithms You’ve Been Dreaming About
Weapons of Math Destruction is an erudite and accessible analysis of how algorithms perpetuate inequity in society. But sometimes quick and…
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History + Politics
Teach Like a Champion, 1950s Version
The term “classroom management” irks many educators. The two-word phrase ignores the heart and soul of teaching: it’s not about…
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Arts + Letters
The Boy Who Lived in a Library
StoryCorp’s video memoir of Ronald Clark, who grew up living in the Washington Height’s public library, will make you yearn…
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Health + Nutrition
Teaching Kids About Food to Save Their Lives with Jamie Oliver
Nutrition is something schools have mostly addressed with a requisite health class. Chef Jamie Oliver says that we have to…
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Civics
Why Is Educating Children in America So Hard?
Dr. Pedro Noguera offers these sagacious words: “We live in a country where those who know the most about education…
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Curriculum
Let Monty Python Help You Teach Argumentative Writing
I first saw reference to this clip in the book They Say/I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. The…
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Everyone Teaches Writing
Why Computer Science?
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Arts + Letters
What You Learn Reading 5 Million Books at Once
Something incredible happens when you read through machines. You can see things in texts you…
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To Your Health
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Health + Nutrition
Learning as Life-Giving
Spirituality and education are not often used in the same breath today, but perhaps they should be. Parker Palmer wrote…
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Family
This 1950 Instructional Film on “Dining Together” Might Just Save Your Thanksgiving
I don’t know who made these films, but there are many of them online. Called “instructional” or “educational” films, you can…
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Civics
Food for the Brain–Really
We don’t talk enough about nutrition in education. I don’t mean nutrition curricula, which is also important. I mean we…
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Health + Nutrition
Immaturity is an Incredible Asset for Learning, Dewey Wrote
I’ve been listening to an audiobook of John Dewey’s classic Democracy in Education [free here]. Listening to his work is…
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Health + Nutrition
Lunch as a Required Course of Study
How Japanese schools approach lunch is eye-opening, especially as many conversations about public education are reduced to narrowly defined academics.…
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WTF? Croissants Will Not Give NYC Students “Energy”
I was astonished to see this advertisement in the subway the other day. While riding the 2 train to a…
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