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Teachers are funnier than you think. Check out these 33 teachers who got the last laugh. (BuzzFeed) A computer for every student. Missouri is jumping on the technology bandwagon. Liberty public schools...
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Teachers lead without leaving the classroom. Watch teachers talk about why their voices are important in the education policy conversation. (Education Next) The benefits of early-college high schools....
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Recruiting teachers in an isolated, impoverished town. Schools in rural communities can’t use the same strategies as urban districts to attract and keep talented teachers. Consider the ways Friars...
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Boeheimian Rhapsody. Syracuse University’s student production group “Humor Whore” won first place in the Original Music Video Category of the Association of Higher Education Campus Television...
View ArticleGoing for ‘Gold’ Can Set The Pre-K Bar Too High
Yesterday I wrote about the “Stone Soup” phenomenon in early childhood education—the pressure on many early childhood organizations to try to produce something out of nothing. But there’s an equally...
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“Dropout age raised by legislator who dropped out” … to join the circus. (h/t POLITICO’s Morning Education, Minneapolis Star Tribune) Irreplaceable. A new report finds that many teachers have a...
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Back to school. Education can be very costly and this year the National Center for Education Statistics estimates that $11,810 will be spent for each student—a total of $591 billion. (AP) “Books are...
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Stop the lying. The British education secretary, Michael Gove, is urging politicians to stop lying to children by telling them they are college and career ready when they are not. Gove endorsed Common...
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A city of intelligence. Ithaca, New York is the smartest city in the country, beating out other top contenders including Ann Arbor, Michigan and State College Pennsylvania. Many of the cities on the...
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Who Are Today’s Career and Technical Education Teachers?
Career and technical education teachers (labeled Vocational/Technical in the charts below) make up about 11 percent of all public high school teachers across the country, according to 2011-2012 data...
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