February 15th, 2010
The Power and Possibilities of Transforming Low Performing Schools
If we are to make success the only option for all students, we would also answer two questions honestly. First, what will it take for everyone involved (administrators, teachers and parents) to resolve that failure is not an acceptable option for any student? And second, who is responsible for every child’s success—is it the student, the parent, the teacher or the administrators?
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Fostering Curiosity and Creativity in Education: The Jim Henson Company
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are skills that often pose a challenge for educators to present creatively. However, if we can get children engaged in these subjects early, there is a greater chance their interest will take root and grow.
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Swimming against the Tide with Mouths Open Wide: Extracting Hip-Hop from Urban Education
EXCERPT: In most urban classrooms, while teachers are engaged in a dance of teaching and learning with their students, the tune they are dancing to is different from the rhythm of hip-hop that drives their students.
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WANTED: An Apollo Program for Math
We now have the know-how to raise the mathematical performance of our nation’s schoolchildren in the 8 to 13 age-range to the top of the world rankings in a single school generation.
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The New Era of Greed
Look what deregulation did for our nation\'s financial institutions. Over the past year or so, we have seen the ruin that unchecked greed unleashed on our society. Let\'s see what it does to our nation\'s public education system.
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Global Education in a Round and Flat World
By Medard Gabel. -- Globalization is a verb, not a noun. Global education should be the same. The world is definitely round- I've seen the picture-and nothing you or the equally brilliant Tom Friedman says is going to make it flat.
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The Lure of Learning: Saving the Scientist in Your Child
“Scientist in the house!” That’s what you’ll hear from a curious 5-year-old named Sid when his grandmother brings him home from preschool each day. You’ll also hear questions. Big questions like “Why are my shoes shrinking?” and “Why do bananas get mushy?” But then that’s what scientists do, and that’s why in many respects children are born scientists.
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The Lure of Learning: STEMming the Tide
There is much talk among educators these days about STEM, an acronym for “science, technology, engineering, and math.” The United States has fallen seriously behind on a variety of measures connected with student achievement and interest in these areas, and this gap could pose a threat to our economic competitiveness — and more! — if we don’t do something about it.
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“No Tray Left Behind”: Styrofoam (Used) Tray Project
Students from my 3D Studio, Body in Time class constructed a sculpture made from about one thousand used Styrofoam* (polystyrene) trays. The dirty compartmentalized trays were collected (and washed) from NYC Department of Education schools, including PS 41, in the West Village, NEST+m on the Lower East Side and PS 163 in the Bronx.
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Celebremos! How Maya and Miguel celebrate El Día de los Niños
The annual celebration of El Día de los Niños originated from the Latino community and is now a special day for all children. On April 30th every year many nations throughout the world celebrate Día de los Niños to honor and celebrate the children who represent the future of each and every society.
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