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TITLE                                                                                                TAGS

Teach for America Expands to Teach for All                                 teaching

 

Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School                                       preschool           

 Pay Only 4 Years of College, Guaranteed       

Access to Technology Not Helping Test Scores                             technology

58,000 Students Take Free Stanford Online Course                       Stanford

US Posts Most and Least Expensive Colleges Online                     government

Why Doing a PhD is Often a Waste of Time                                  colleges

Why We Have College                                                                 history

An App that Writes Your Bibliography for You                               apps

60 First Graders, 4 Teachers, One Loud New Way to Learn         ideas

The Washington Post's Master Classes                                      newspapers

Contests to Remember the Digits of Pi                                     classification

Extracurricular Sex Toy Lesson at Northwestern                          sex

60 First Graders, 4 Teachers, 1 Loud New Way to Learn             teaching

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test                         teaching

Teacher Evaluation via Camera                                             teachers

 More Professors Have Students Use Devices in Class

A New College Course:  The Sociology of Fame                    [fame, sociology]

In Digital Age, Students Still Clinging to Textbooks                 [colleges]

Anything Goes at the Manhattan Free School                        [New York City]

Singapore Math                                                                       [trends, math]

4100 Students Suggest that 'Small is Better' Rule is Wrong        [Massachusetts]

Texas:  Mentions of Islam Unwelcome in Textbooks                  [Texas]

Automated Computer Tutors with a Human Touch                 [technology]

Yale Plans to Create a College in Singapore                            [colleges, Yale]

Forget What You Know about Good Study Habits                    [the brain]

Colleges Making Parents Say Bye                                               [colleges]

Getting into Med School without the MCATs                             [medical school]

To Stop Cheaters, Colleges Learn Their Trickery                          [cheating]

Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It                            [engineering]

At Some High Schools, Multiple Valedictorians                          [high schools]

In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like Thatf                                     [recessions]

Colleges Now Welcoming Pets                                                  [pets]

Freshman at Berkeley Asked to Send in DNA                               [UCB]

Why Home Schooling is Illegal in Germany                                 [home schooling]

Why You Might Want to Think Twice about Getting a PhD         [books]

Project Euler: Challenge Yourself with Complex Problems          [math]

Avatars Used in School to Approximate the Work World            [technology]

Teaching the Young How to Read Ads                                       [advertising]

Soon:  Masters Degrees in Teaching without College                 [teachers]

Last Call for a Nightclub in a School                                           [Pennsylvania]

The Blue School                                                                             [private schools]

Cornell Being Labeled a Suicide School                                       [Cornell]

The Recess Coach                                                                         [recess]

Standardized-Testing Scholar Questions Her Life’s Work               [government]

High Schools to Offer Plan to Graduate 2 Years Early                [high school]

Schools Accused of Spying on Students via Laptops                 [schools]

Textbooks that Professors Can Rewrite Digitally                        [textbooks]

Wi-Fi Turns Rowdy Bus into Rolling Study Hall                              [Arizona]

Yale, Short $150 Million, Plans Research and Staff Cuts              [Yale, recessions]

Courses on Deconstructing 'The Wire'                                         [The Wire, TV]

As Honor Students Multiply, Who Really is One?                          [honor societies]

Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them                        [the brain]

A Mandatory Course in Jewish Sexual Ethics                               [Judaism]

A New Look for the GRE                                                              [the GRE]

A Lock for Browsers that's Nearly Child-Proof                              [Google]

Test Prep Companies for 3 and 4 Year-Olds                                [New York City]

Selling Lessons Online Raises Cash . . .and Questions                  [the Internet]

Educational Video Games Mix Cool with a Purpose                  [video games]

Taking College Classes in the Dead of Night                              [colleges]

American Schools Look Abroad to Hire Teachers                        [trends]

The Future of Education May Really Be in Video Games              [video games, trends]

The Rubber Room: Where NYC's Worst Teachers Sit for $             [New York City, The Rubber Room, teachers]

The Video Game Strategy                                                            [video games]

A New Assignment:  Pick Books You Like                                      [books]

Disabled Students are Spanked More                                           [the disabled]

Are the Glory Days Gone for I.T.?                                                  [Information Technology, trends, questions]

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks Become History                  [technology, trends]

For Today's Graduate, Just One Word:  Statistics                          [statistics, careers, trends]

Raising the Bar in Alabama Via Profuse Online Education           [Alabama, the Internet]

Peer Pressure Causes Hugs to Be Banned at Some Schools          [peer pressure]

When the Cell Phone Teaches Sex Education                               [sex ed, cell phones]       

Report Says Principal Put Students in Cage to Fight                     [discipline]

GMU Leaves UAE; Number of Graduates:  Zero                             [the United Arab Emirates, George Mason University, colleges and universities]

New Type of Desk May Change Classroom Dynamics                  [furniture, desks]

Children:  Recess Found to Improve Behavior                               [recess, behavior]

Law School Lure: No Tuition                                                           [law school]

Become Power Peralta in P.E.                                                        [skateboarding]

Colleges Giving Every Freshman an iPod                                       [iPods, colleges and universities]

Texas:  Teachers Can Carry Guns                                                    [Texas, guns]

High Cost of Driving Ignites Boom in Online Education                 [online education, colleges and universities]

2 Colleges End SAT Requirement                                                    [colleges and universities, SATs]

Poker With Educational Benefits?                                                  [poker, gambling, games]

ParentConnect and Others Keep Parents Informed                      [websites, parenting]

Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls & Slices                         [Math]

Harlem to Antarctica for Science, and Pupils                                [Antarctica, science, teachers]

NYC Charter School to Pay Teachers $125K                                   [charter schools]

Princeton Plans for an Early Year Abroad                                      [Princeton University, colleges and universities]

Japan Is Obsessing Over . . .Schools in India?                               [Japan, India]

New Recess: No Soccer or Kickball Allowed                                 [recess]

A New Tactic to Fire Bad Teachers                                                 [firing]

The School of Shock (Education for Kids Via Electric Shock)          [shock therapy]

Does Teach for America work?                                                      [Teach for America]