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  • Teacher: Embrace Books, Ditch Technology

    Teacher: Embrace Books, Ditch Technology0

    Late last week, The Washington Post ran a piece written by high school English teacher Giles Scott. According to Scott, the coming school year will find his classroom laptop free. Scott’s resolve to remove technology from the reach of his students does not stem from secret Luddite tendencies. Instead, he argues that students need time

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  • Teacher: Busy Work is Killing Love for Reading

    Teacher: Busy Work is Killing Love for Reading0

    The other day, a judge used a unique punishment for a handful of teens who desecrated a historic school building with derogatory statements: read books. The novelty of the sentence testifies to the fact that kids simply don’t read very much anymore. But why this dearth of reading? After all, parents try to get kids

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  • Teacher Shortage? Nope.

    Teacher Shortage? Nope.0

    • August 12, 2015

    It’s often said that a high quality teacher is the most important factor in determining a child’s academic success. But as we gear up for a new school year, numerous states are reporting that there is a shortage of this crucial component. Such reports caused Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute to wonder if today’s

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  • Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners

    Teacher Punishes Student… for Good Manners4

    Everyone expects the first week of school to contain some hiccups. Even though we all know that our children are perfect angels and would never give their teachers trouble, the transition to schedules and classmates can also contain behavior problems that mom and dad will eventually hear about. What most parents don’t expect to hear,

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  • Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools

    Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools0

    My homeschooled children take weekly math classes with a gifted teacher who has been teaching math to kids for more than 30 years from her cozy city home. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she decided that offering math tutoring and enrichment classes would enable her

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  • Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student

    Teacher Facing Discipline for ‘Misgendering’ Student0

    Via the BBC: “A teacher is facing disciplinary action at his school after he referred to a transgender pupil as a girl, although the student identifies as a boy. Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian pastor from Oxford, admitted he said “Well done girls” when addressing a group including the student. He described it as a “slip

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