April 15, 1998

School & District Management Muddle in the Middle

Wander down the inviting hallways of Patuxent Valley Middle School on a typical Monday morning and pop into any classroom. Students are reading aloud the fraction-laden short stories they've written for math class.

Education Letter to the Editor Letters

In Single-Sex Education, Girls Thrive on Their Terms

College & Workforce Readiness Opinion The SAT: Public-Spirited or Preserving Privilege?

The latest rounds of public discussion about the SAT are being conducted without much attention to the test's origins or the assumptions embedded in its use.

Education Opinion The Old Order Changeth?

The old order changeth, yielding place to new," wrote Alfred Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King. In no other social enterprise has the change in the "old order" been as dramatic and complete in such a short space of time as it has in the realm of ideas in public education.

Education Opinion Teaching Those Who Don't Want To Learn

It's a Sunday night and I am preparing my lessons for the week ahead. It astonishes me how much I have yet to learn about effective teaching practices, particularly with students who are not successful at school. These are the students whose faces haunt me on Sunday nights, who trip me up as I try different ways to frame questions that will get them thinking, who will not let me sink into that strange state of mind--complacency--for even a minute.