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School arts = higher scores
Research: Program boosts standardized test results North County third graders who had the arts integrated into their regular curriculum showed remarkable improvement on standardized test scores, researchers announced Thursday. The… Read more
Dolores Palacio, New Miramonte Principal, Is ‘Totally Transparent,’ ‘Totally Open’ (VIDEO)
Perhaps the most important member of Miramonte Elementary’s brand-new staff is the new principal, 66-year-old Dolores Palacio. Her immediate goal is to calm the nerves of parents — some who… Read more
LAUSD board member wants disclosure guidelines to notify public in sex-abuse cases
Angry that parents were never told a Telfair Elementary School teacher had been charged with molesting four children, school board member Nury Martinez called Friday for the district to set… Read more
HCC professor leading protest of Arizona schools’ book ban
A grass-roots caravan from Houston to Tucson – filled with writers, students and activists – will bring prohibited books back to Arizona over spring break. When Tony Diaz heard that… Read more
Dallas School Girls Excluded From ‘Red Tails’ Movie Screening, Bussed Thousands Of Boys To Event
When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas’ public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a… Read more
Why mobile learning?
Mobile learning is seen by many as a disruptive technology. This is because it has been identified as a technology which holds great potential to transform the learning and teaching… Read more
MIT Mints a Valuable New Form of Academic Currency
By Kevin Carey – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has invented or improved many world-changing things—radar, information theory, and synthetic self-replicating molecules, to name a few. Last month the university… Read more
Is Open and Distance Learning the Key to Quality Higher Education for All?
UNESCO has repeatedly argued that the number of places for post-secondary learners must increase from approximately 120 million to 240 million worldwide, with large-scale growth already having been documented over… Read more
The Purpose of Education – Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses the purpose of education, impact of technology, whether education should be perceived as a cost or an investment and the value of standardised assessment. Presented at the… Read more
The Gamified Classroom
Andrew R. Proto – Today’s 21st century students are not like their parents’ generation. Never before have we, as a civilization, experienced such a large generation gap — and the… Read more
