Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Aug 20th, 2010 No Comments »
As Private Tutoring Booms, Parents Look at the Returns While tutors once focused on helping children who were falling behind in particular subjects or had a learning disability, they are now being used far more to guide students through particularly tough courses, insure their grades are equal to or above their peers’ and, in the [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on May 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Plan B: Skip College The number of students who finish college is relatively small given the number of students who apply, get in, and start. Of those, the number with good jobs is even smaller. This article explores other alternatives.
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Apr 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School? In junior high school, one of my classmates had a TV addiction — back before it was normal. This boy — we’ll call him Ethan — was an encyclopedia of vacuous content, from The A-Team to Who’s the Boss? Then one day Ethan’s mother made him [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to ‘Stand and Deliver’ Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79. The subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Mar 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Building a Better Teacher But what makes a good teacher? There have been many quests for the one essential trait, and they have all come up empty-handed. Among the factors that do not predict whether a teacher will succeed: a graduate-school degree, a high score on the SAT, an extroverted personality, politeness, confidence, warmth, enthusiasm [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Feb 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
Ways into Shakespeare’s Othello English teacher Sabrina Broadbent leads a masterclass on Shakespeare, using her expertise to engage a group of Year 10 students. Let me state up front, I’m a poor reader, was a poor student, hated Shakespeare, and at this point in my life I’m as cynical as ever about education. But, I [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Oct 20th, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Parent-Paid Aides Ordered Out of (New York) City Schools For years, top Manhattan public schools have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from parents to independently hire assistants to help teachers with reading, writing, tying shoelaces or supervising recess. But after a complaint by the city’s powerful teachers union, the Bloomberg administration has ordered an [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jun 7th, 2009 3 Comments »
Nicholas Kristof: Rising Above I.Q. In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us. Wonderful piece and I think Obama is on to the same logic, he’s pushing education over all [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas on Jun 4th, 2009 No Comments »
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