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Curriculum Computer Science for All and Silicon Valley: Generous Support or Corporate Takeover?The tech industry is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to K-12 computer-science education, raising questions about its motives and impact.
Curriculum Opinion Educating Stewards of the EarthWorld Wildlife Fund shares ways to teach about conservation.
Curriculum First-Generation College Students Face Extra Challenges in High School, TooStudents whose parents didn't go to college are more likely to take fewer challenging courses when they're in high school, a new research brief shows.Curriculum Letter to the Editor The Critical Need for Critical InstructionTo the Editor:
On January 17, Education Week covered a recent report released by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's Clinical Practice Commission (Teacher Beat blog, edweek.org, "Teacher Ed. Group Calls for More High-Quality Student Teaching"). The report, "A Pivot Toward Clinical Practice, Its Lexicon, and the Renewal of Educator Preparation," addressed the preparation of teacher-candidates but omits the instructional preparation of teacher-educators who teach teacher-candidates. The tenets outlined in this report do not challenge conventional classroom pedagogy of rote instruction and learning. To claim, as the AACTE report does, that conventional pedagogy represents a "science" of professional knowledge is to lose the meaning of the term science. The AACTE tenets do not address the need to replace rote instruction with a core body of knowledge for critical instruction and learning. The most important core principle of educator preparation is to practice subject matter critically based on critical reasoning, reading, and writing processes.
Curriculum Q&A Is It Hard to Fire the Bad Ones? Authors Take on Popular Teacher 'Myths'What is true and false about the teaching profession? Three educators unpack what they see as the most enduring popular myths about teachers and education.
Curriculum Opinion Global Competence in PracticeExamples of how teachers around the world are teaching for global competence.Curriculum New Ohio Law Focuses on Computer Science, Lets Students Avoid Algebra 2An Ohio law gives students the right to opt out of Algebra 2 -- a staple of high school math - if they take computer science instead.Curriculum W.Va. Bill Would Give Districts More Choice in Textbook AdoptionBut some Democrats say that could make the selection process more political.
Curriculum Opinion Author Interview: 'Deep Learning: Engage the World, Change the World'Michael Fullan, Joanne Quinn and Joanne McEachen agreed to answer a few questions about their new book, "Deep Learning: Engage The World, Change The World."
Curriculum Opinion Author Interview: 'Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In'Ilana Horn, author of "Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want To Join In," agreed to answer a few questions about her book.
Curriculum Opinion How Language Immersion Programs Prepare Students to Be Global CitizensHow cultural pedagogical practices in dual language immersion programs help prepare students to be global citizens.
Curriculum In Today's Political Climate, It's Harder to Teach Civics, Some Teachers SayEducators say teaching civics in an age of news overload and intense partisan division has become increasingly difficult. Teachers and education experts share some ideas on how to bring civic engagement into the classroom.
Curriculum Computer, Data-Science Skills Worth Extra Across Job Market, Analysis FindsTwenty percent of living-wage jobs now value computer-science skills, and those jobs pay $20,000 more per year than jobs that don't, according to a Burning Glass/Oracle Academy analysis.
Curriculum Opinion Author Interview: 'Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement'Heather Wolpert-Gawron agreed to answer a few questions about her book, "Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement."
Curriculum Bible-Literacy Classes Go Beyond Letter of the Law, Argues Kentucky ACLUSome Kentucky public schools are offering Bible-literacy classes with assignments that are in violation of the U.S. Constitution, alleges the American Civil Liberties Union.
