On a recent afternoon in June, a line of kids between the ages of 5 and 13 snaked back from the door at the edge of classroom at St. Anthony's Catholic School in East Oakland, California. Some jumped ...
Music is the universal language. It fills us with emotion and fosters imagination. What is the place of music in education, especially at a time when the arts are being severely cut from many ...
This is Lauren Drazen's tenth year teaching Chinese at Hall High School, one of the two public high schools in West Hartford, Connecticut. Hall offers Chinese in grades 9–12, in levels I through AP.
SUMMER SCHOOL DESIGNED THROUGH THE LENSES OF STUDENTS. THAT’S THE IDEA BEHIND OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOL’S NEXT LEVEL LEARNING PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM FOCUSES ON TEACHING KIDS SCHOOL CURRICULUM WHILE KEEPING ...
If your evenings sometimes look like a scene from a dramatic TV show, crumpled worksheets, a frustrated child threatening to run away, and you counting to ten very slowly while holding back tears, you ...
For quite some time now, American educators have been pushing the idea that it is important to make learning "fun". This is a damaging concept. To understand why, just ask yourself a simple question: ...
Did you know that as per DataforIndia, a staggering majority of Indians above the age of 25 were either illiterate or have only completed primary education? Shocking, right? Well, education isn’t just ...
Traditional training methods, such as long lectures, boring modules, and passive information delivery, often fail. Such approaches can quickly be overly dreary for the employees, leaving them mentally ...
A class of Fayette Elementary fifth-graders brought history to life Wednesday through a series of short plays about early European explorers of North America. In one play, student Luke Sullivan ...